Resurrection

*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Luke 24:36b-48 CLASSIC POEM: Resurrection John Donne Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul Shall—though she now be in extreme degree Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul, And life by this death abled shall control Death, whom Thy death slew; nor shall to me Fear of first or last death bring misery, If in Thy life-book 1 my name thou enroll. Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified, But made that there, of which, and for which it was; Nor can by other means be glorified. May then sin’s sleep and death soon from me pass, That waked from both, I again risen may Salute the last and everlasting day. *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus Denise Levertov SNIPPET: It is for all ‘literalists of the imagination,’ poets or not, that miracle is possible and essential. Are some intricate minds nourished on concept, as epiphytes flourish high in the canopy? … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]