"Well it's not far down to paradise...at least it's not for me..."
He sails to watch the sunrise in the morning to remind him that every day is new. He sails to be able to see the Glory of God at sunset knowing that no matter what happened in the day, there is peace at it's end. At night, he marks the stars in the clearing of the skies to see how they have changed into something more wonderful than he could have ever calculated himself. He sails to mark the meaning of life itself in the beauty of it's light and the in the fear of it's darkness...
Yet still the question remains: Why a fishing boat without the intention to catch fish? In the world he lives, every man is given a fishing boat with the intention to catch fish yet every man is free to choose what he does with it. He casts no nets yet some fish are still drawn to the boat itself by it's beauty and others swim by occasionally to hear him play his songs. In deep waters, there are sea creatures of every kind imaginable. Some can blind you with their beauty and some can repel you by their ugliness. His decision on which fish to tend to is based on intent itself. He tends to the ones that come to hear him because they are drawn to more than what they see. Very seldom though, he will also tend to them that are drawn by the beauty of the boat when he sees that they now see more as well. Due to this, he tends to very few...
For a time, he thought to sail the rest of his life. That a Fisherman's life was by design "free". That is until he came to the deeper understanding that just because he had the title of "fisherman", did not mean he had to live by it's intended meaning. That to really be free he would allow himself the choice to sail or not to sail. So he built a home on land and in it, he placed a beautiful pond. That if he should ever find a fish worth housing...he would have a place for it. For now, you can still find him out at sea. Still...the Fisherman...
~Moses Apollo
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