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This resource relating to 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 provides a poem by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) highlighting a compromising journey to wisdom and a poem by Denise Levertov (1923-1997) highlighting how true wisdom comes from facing suffering.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
I Cor. 1:18-25
CLASSIC POEM:
Wisdom
Sara Teasdale
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange- my youth.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Beginning of Wisdom
Denise Levertov
You have brought me so far.
I know so much. Names, verbs, images. My mind
overflows, a drawer that can’t close.
Unscathed among the tortured. Ignorant parchment
uninscribed, light strokes only, where a scribe
tried out a pen.
I am so small, a speck of dust
moving across the huge world. The world
a speck of dust in the universe.
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Key Scriptures:
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Third Sunday in Lent
Date:
Tuesday, February 27, 2024