Footsteps of Jesus
Four lines about the gap between what people call themselves and what they actually do.
Sometimes the shortest piece is the sharpest one. This is for the gap between identification and practice.
Everyone calls themselves
Christian…or Religious
Yet no one got the balls
To follow the footsteps of Jesus
The label is easy. The behavior is hard. The poem isn’t aimed at any particular faith — it just notices that for most belief systems, the acting like it part is the part most people skip.
— JTC