Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24
CLASSIC POEM:
They Say that
‘Time Assuages’
Emily Dickinson
They say that ‘time assuages,’–
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
little prayer
Danez Smith
SNIPPET:
let ruin end here
let him find honey
where there was once a slaughter
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