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This resource relating to Exodus 16:2-15 and Psalm 78:23-29 provides poems by John Newton (1725-1807) and Luci Shaw highlighting God's provision as represented by manna.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 and Psalm 78:23-29
CLASSIC POEM:
Manna to Israel Well Supplied
John Newton
Manna to Israel well supplied
The want of other bread;
While God is able to provide,
His people shall be fed.
Thus though the corn and wine should fail,
And creature-streams be dry;
The prayer of faith will still prevail,
For blessings from on high.
Of his kind care how sweet a proof!
It suited every taste;
Who gathered most, had just enough,
Enough, who gathered least.
‘Tis thus our gracious Lord provides
Our comforts and our cares;
His own unerring hand provides,
And gives us each our shares.
He knows how much the weak can bear,
And helps them when they cry;
The strongest have no strength to spare,
For such he’ll strongly try.
Daily they saw the Manna come,
And cover all the ground;
But what they tried to keep at home,
Corrupted soon was found.
Vain their attempt to store it up,
This was to tempt the Lord;
Israel must live by faith and hope,
And not upon a hoard.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Manna
Luci Shaw
SNIPPET:
I’m not asking for quails for dinner
and, if they flew in my window, at mealtime,
in a torrent of wind, I would think
aggravation, not miracle.
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Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15; Psalm 78:23-29
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 13 (Ordinary Time 18)