Pastors Are Supposed to Be the Shepherds

September 7, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is professions in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 4.

Today’s poem is about the profession of pastor.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Pastors are supposed to be the shepherds

A willing flock has bid to guide their souls.

So must you be yourself a lamb of courage,

The one most lost amid the moral wreckage

Of Adam's sin, whose grief must be the fold's.

Remember we are all but broken potsherds,

Sustained alone by faith in some great whole.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/pastor.html. For more poems about professions, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/professionspoems.html .

This week’s theme: Professions

September 4: Facts Are Never Simply What Is True

September 5: Therapists Find Fortune in Misfortune

September 6: Nurses Must Be Angels by Profession

September 7: Pastors Are Supposed to Be the Shepherds