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This resource relating to 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting finding strength in vulnerability and a poem by Christian Wiman highlighting surviving poor health.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
CLASSIC POEM:
Not To Discover Weakness Is
Emily Dickinson
Not to discover weakness is
The Artifice of strength —
Impregnability inheres
As much through Consciousness
Of faith of others in itself
As Pyramidal Nerve
Behind the most unconscious clock
What skilful Pointers move —
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
After the Diagnosis
Christian Wiman
SNIPPET:
…
Change is a thing one sleeps through
when young, and he was young.
If there was a weakness in the earth,
a give he went down on his knees
to find and feel the limits of,
there is no longer.
…
[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Key Scriptures:
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 9 (Ordinary Time 14)
Date:
Monday, July 1, 2024