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This resource relating to John 6:56-69 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting an overwhelming satisfaction and a poem by Richard Levine highlighting provision.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
John 6:56-69
CLASSIC POEM:
Hunger
Emily Dickinson
I had been hungry all the years;
My noon had come, to dine;
I, trembling, drew the table near,
And touched the curious wine.
‘T was this on tables I had seen,
When turning, hungry, lone,
I looked in windows, for the wealth
I could not hope to own.
I did not know the ample bread,
‘T was so unlike the crumb
The birds and I had often shared
In Nature’s dining-room.
The plenty hurt me, ‘t was so new, ?
Myself felt ill and odd,
As berry of a mountain bush
Transplanted to the road.
Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The entering takes away.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Bread
Richard Levine
Snippet:
Something has happened
to the bread
and the wine.
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Key Scriptures:
John 6:56-69
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Year B Proper 16 (Ordinary Time 21)