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This resource relating to Mark 9:30-37 provides a poem by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) encouraging the embracing of love and a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye highlighting the power and importance of children.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Mark 9:30-37
CLASSIC POEM:
Child, Child
Sara Teasdale
Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man,
Never fear though it break your heart –
Out of the wound new joy will start;
Only love proudly and gladly and well
Though love be heaven or love be hell.
Child, child, love while you may,
For life is short as a happy day;
Never fear the thing you feel –
Only by love is life made real;
Love, for the deadly sins are seven,
Only through love will you enter heaven.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye
SNIPPET:
The tiny journalist
will tell us what she sees.
Document the moves, the dust,
soldiers blocking the road.
[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Key Scriptures:
Mark 9:30-37
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 20 (Ordinary Time 25)