Feed My Sheep

Prologue

Simon sat adrift in thought and remorse so intense that all else was drowned in its depths.  Even the nearby chatter of Thomas, Nathaniel and the others was dull and remote, as if coming from the distant shore mixed with the sounds of the wind and waves.  Each wave that lifted the old weather beaten boat towards the heavens brought a flood of joyous memories, only to recede as the boat sank ignominiously back towards earth and Simon, with it, back into the trough of despair.  “How could I have denied him after all that I witnessed?” Simon thought, as a groan involuntarily escaped his lips.  “Did I not tell him that I was a sinful man? Why did he trust me?  Why didn’t he just leave me where He found me instead of showing me the wonders of the possible through trusting him, only to leave me alone?”