Zebedee

He walked along from there and saw two other brothers,
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John.
They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets.
He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father
and followed him.
—Matthew 4:18-23

Go on and leave me, children;
your hunger is for more.
He knows, and he can fill it
who calls you from the shore.

I see your way lies elsewhere.
Go; leave the nets to me,
and you will find them mended
if you return to sea—

though you may not.  Yet follow
the road that leads from sight.
It leads through deeps and shallows
and onward into light.

And sorely you’ll be tested,
and sharply you will fall,
but slowly you will get there.
Go on, through sun and squall.

Go with him where he leads your
through sorrow and through joy,
and take the bread he feeds you,
for it will be your joy.

His sorrows will transform you;
his bread the bread that saves—
and I will face those storms, too,
out here upon the waves.

Though we shall fail and falter,
yet follow that bright gleam:
It leads you from these waters
to shores we only dream.

Go on and leave me, children:
Your way is not the sea,
but though our paths are different,
his light will come to me.

Hildesheimer Dom, Christussäule, Berufung der Jünger Jakobus und Johannes By Bischöfliche Pressestelle Hildesheim (bph) – [1], Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10070343