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This resource relating to 2 Samuel 7:1-17 provides a poem by George MacDonald highlighting a desire to see God's face and a poem by Patrick Kavanagh that describes seeing beauty in ordinary places.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Samuel 7:1-17
CLASSIC POEM:
After King David
George Macdonald
I shall be satisfied
With the seeing of thy face.
When I awake, wide-eyed,
I shall be satisfied
With what this life did hide,
The one supernal grace!
I shall be satisfied
With the seeing of thy face.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The One
Patrick Kavanagh
SNIPPET:
Green, blue, yellow and red –
God is down in the swamps and marshes
Sensational as April and almost incred-
ible the flowering of our catharsis.
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2 Samuel 7:1-17
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NL307 God's Promise to David