Matthew 9:9: “As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-collection station, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him.”
In Matthew 9:9, one verse tells an entire story.
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Mary Karr (b.1955) is an American poet, essayist, and memoirist from East Texas. In three best-selling memoirs she has described her conversion “from blackbelt sinner and lifelong agnostic to unlikely Catholic.” This poem is from her collection Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006), p.40.
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