Hunger

*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: John 6:35, 41-51 CLASSIC POEM: Hunger George Macdonald Father, I cry to thee for bread With hungred longing, eager prayer; Thou hear’st, and givest me instead More hunger and a half-despair. O Lord, how long? My days decline, My youth is lapped in memories old; I need not bread alone, but wine- See, cup and hand to thee I hold! And yet thou givest: thanks, O Lord, That still my heart with hunger faints! The day will come when at thy board I sit, forgetting all my plaints. If rain must come and winds must blow, And I pore long o’er dim-seen chart, Yet, Lord, let not the hunger go, And keep the faintness at my heart. *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: Bread W.S. Merwin SNIPPET: Each face in the street is a slice of bread wandering on searching somewhere in the light the true hunger appears to be passing them by they clutch … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]