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This resource relating to 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 provides a poem by Sara Teasdale highlighting the gifts that love gives and a poem by Denise Levertov highlighting the gift of questions.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
CLASSIC POEM:
The Gift
Sara Teasdale
What can I give you, my lord, my lover,
You who have given the world to me,
Showed me the light and the joy that cover
The wild sweet earth and restless sea?
All that I have are gifts of your giving—
If I gave them again, you would find them old,
And your soul would weary of always living
Before the mirror my life would hold.
What shall I give you, my lord, my lover?
The gift that breaks the heart in me:
I bid you awake at dawn and discover
I have gone my way and left you free.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
A Gift
Denise Levertov
SNIPPET:
Just when you seem to yourself
nothing but a flimsy web
of questions, you are given
the questions of others to hold
in the emptiness of your hands,
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1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Year C Second Sunday after the Epiphany