‘…Caleb and Joshua…have wholly followed the Lord’ Numbers 32.12.

True Followers

What were they like to live with
this Caleb, this Joshua ?
How rate as husbands, fathers, sons ?
even-tempered, patient, loving, otherwise ?
did people, mocking, call them ‘Holy Joes’ ?

Father, You know
what I am like to live with !
so does my wife,
my children, too.
God, grant that they’ll have cause
when I’m with You, to say
I wholly followed You !