With the dawn of a new church year, we have launched a new feature on our website, a weekly post of poetry that resonates with the lectionary readings for that week (Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Revelation 1:4-8
Oh what a Grace is this
Emily Dickinson
Oh what a Grace is this,
What Majesties of Peace,
That having breathed
The fine—ensuing Right
Without Diminuet Proceed!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Self Portrait as Clay
in the Hands of The Almighty
Pádraig Ó Tuama
SNIPPET:
Shortly after the beginning,
just before he breathed life in them, God made some changes
to the clay shapes he’d later make into people.
He sliced them open, pubic bone to collarbone,
looked at his arrangement.
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