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This resource relating to 1 John 3:1-7 provides a poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963) highlighting a desire to be known and a poem by A. M. Juster desiring to embrace the new heaven and earth.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
1 John 3:1-7
CLASSIC POEM:
Revelation
Robert Frost
We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.
’Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.
But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Revelation Hymn
A.M. Juster
Snippet:
To regather will, I embrace
my tin soul with timorous joy.
A new heaven and a new earth
have eclipsed the old, and the force
of fresh grace unsettles the world.
To regather will, I embrace
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1 John 3:1-7
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Third Sunday of Easter
Date:
Monday, April 8, 2024