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This resource relating to Proverbs 31:10-31 provides a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) which describes the gift of his wife and a poem by Deborah Paredez highlighting a woman's surviving a broken marriage.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Proverbs 31:10-31
CLASSIC POEM:
My Wife
Robert Louis Stevenson
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.
Honour, anger, valour, fire;
A love that life could never tire,
Death quench or evil stir,
The mighty master
Gave to her.
Teacher, tender, comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life,
Heart-whole and soul-free
The august father
Gave to me.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Wife’s Disaster Manual
Deborah Paredez
SNIPPET:
When the forsaken city starts to burn,
after the men and children have fled,
stand still, silent as prey, and slowly turn
back. Behold the curse. Stay and mourn
the collapsing doorways, the unbroken bread
in the forsaken city starting to burn.
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Proverbs 31:10-31
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 20 (Ordinary Time 25)