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This resource relating to 2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132 provides a poem by Henry Vaughan highlighting God's dwelling place and a poem by Mary Oliver highlighting coming home.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132:1-12, (13-18)
CLASSIC POEM:
The Dwelling-Place
Henry Vaughan
What happy secret fountain,
Fair shade or mountain,
Whose undiscovered virgin glory
Boasts it this day, though not in story,
Was then thy dwelling? Did some cloud,
Fixed to a tent, descend a shroud
My distressed Lord? Or did a star,
Beckoned by Thee, though high and far,
In sparkling smiles haste gladly down
To lodge light and increase her own?
My dear, dear God! I do not know
What lodged Thee then, nor where, nor how;
But I am sure Thou dost now come
Oft to a narrow, homely room,
Where Thou too hast but the least part:
My God, I mean my sinful heart.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Coming Home
Mary Oliver
SNIPPET:
When we are driving in the dark,
on the long road
to Provincetown, which lies empty
for miles, when we’re weary,
when the buildings
and the scrub pines lose
their familiar look,
I imagine us rising
from the speeding car.
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2 Samuel 23:1-7; Psalm 132
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Reign of Christ Proper 29 (Ordinary Time 34)