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:
Psalm 25:1-10
CLASSIC POEM:
God’s Mercy
Robert Herrick
God’s boundless mercy is (to sinful man)
Like to the ever-wealthy ocean:
Which though it sends forth thousand streams, ’tis ne’re
Known, or else seen, to be the emptier;
And though it takes all in, ’tis yet no more
Full, and filled full, then when full filled before.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Mercy Poem
Rudy Francisco
SNIPPET:
She asked me to kill the spider
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
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