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This resource relating to Job 38:1-7, 34-41 provides a poem by Lord Byron highlighting the brevity of life and a poem by Anna Kamieńska which seeks a lesson from God in silence.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Job 38:1-7, (34-41)
CLASSIC POEM:
A Spirit Passed Before Me
Lord Byron
A spirit passed before me: I beheld
The face of immortality unveiled –
Deep sleep came down on every eye save mine –
And there it stood, -all formless -but divine:
Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake;
And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake:
“Is man more just than God? Is man more pure
Than He who deems even Seraphs insecure?
Creatures of clay -vain dwellers in the dust!
The moth survives you, and are ye more just?
Things of a day! you wither ere the night,
Heedless and blind to Wisdom’s wasted light!”
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Prayer of Job
Anna Kamienska
SNIPPET:
Teach me to be silent
when I want to scream
when silence hurts
Teach me not to complain
not to talk about the fickleness of life
how difficult life is
how little sense there is in it
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Job 38:1-7, 34-41
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 24 (Ordinary Time 29)