Each week we carefully curate a collection of Lectionary Poetry to correspond with the designated Scripture readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Philippians 3:4b-14
CLASSIC POEM:
A Better Resurrection
Christina Rossetti
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm’d with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall—the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the searching cold;
Cast in the fire the perish’d thing;
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him, my King:
O Jesus, drink of me.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Wendell Berry
SNIPPET:
…
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
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