With the dawn of Advent and a new church year this coming weekend, we are launching a new feature on our website, a weekly post of poetry that resonates with the lectionary readings for that week (Revised Common Lectionary).
Lectionary Reading: Romans 15:4-13
CLASSIC POEM:
The Guesthouse
Rumi
Found in:
Rumi’s Little Book of Life
SNIPPET:
Be grateful for all you receive,
good and bad alike, for it may be a gift
from the treasury of Spirit that will bring
the fulfillment of your most secret desire.
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Last on Earth
Mary Ruefle
SNIPPET:
It is said that many have been cured of madness by drinking
of the spring in the orchard of this convent, but I
doubt it, for it is a very pleasant place and a surfeit
of pleasantries often leads directly to madness.
…
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