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 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
Sonnet 15
William Shakespeare
Of all my loves this is the first and last
That in the autumn of my years has grown,
A secret fern, a violet in the grass,
A final leaf where all the rest are gone.
Would that I could give all and more, my life,
My world, my thoughts, my arms, my breath, my future,
My love eternal, endless, infinite, yet brief,
As all loves are, and hopes, though they endure.
You are my sun and stars, my night, my day,
My seasons, summer, winter, my sweet spring,
My autumn song, the church in which I pray,
My land and ocean, all that the earth can bring
Of glory and of sustenance, all that might be divine,
My alpha and my omega, and all that was ever mine.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Five Psalms (No. 1)
Mark Jarman
SNIPPET:
Let us think of God as a lover
Who never calls,
Whose pleasure in us is aroused
In unrepeatable ways,
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