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This resource relating to Psalm 19 provides a poem by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) highlighting wisdom that comes with maturity and a poem by Malcolm Guite that offers God praise for his creation and law.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 19
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 have looked 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:
Caeli Enarrant
Malcom Guite
SNIPPET:
In that still place where earth and heaven meet
Under mysterious starlight, raise your head
And gaze up at their glory: ‘the complete
Consort dancing’ as a poet said
Of his own words. But these are all God’s words;
A shining poem, waiting to be read
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Psalm 19
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NL231 First Last and Last First
Date:
Monday, February 12, 2024