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 ***
Lectionary Reading:
Jeremiah 1: 4-10
CLASSIC POEM:
Jeremiah
John Henry Newman
Woe’s me! the peaceful prophet cried,
Spare me this troubled life;
To stem man’s wrath, to school his pride,
To head the sacred strife!
O place me in some silent vale,
Where groves and flowers abound;
Nor eyes that grudge, nor tongues that rail,
Vex the truth-haunted ground!”
If his meek spirit err’d, opprest,
That God denied repose,
What sin is ours, to whom Heaven’s rest
Is pledged, to heal earth’s woes?
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
How to Be a Poet
Wendell Berry
SNIPPET:
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
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