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.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
SNIPPET:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
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