1. He might have stayed where John had stood before and waited for the world to come to him and been a sage for people to seek out. Instead he left the desert seeking them. 2. A few he found engaged beside the sea who did not see themselves as seekers yet. But soon they glimpsed a way, a truth, a life, they valued, did not have, could not forget. 3. And so begins the story that we tell and tell again, because it fosters trust and wonder that this spreading way of God has reached -- and might reach farther yet through -- us. From Songs for the Cycle ©2004 by Michael Hudson. Church Publishing Incorporated. All rights reserved. Used by permission.