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This resource relating to Genesis 9:8-17 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting themes of death, resurrection, and the beauty of nature and a poem by Andrea Skevington highlighting a theme of hope.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Gen. 9:8-17
CLASSIC POEM:
On this long storm
the Rainbow rose –
Emily Dickinson
On this long storm the Rainbow rose –
On this late morn – the sun –
The Clouds – like listless Elephants –
Horizons – straggled down –
The Birds rose smiling, in their nests –
The gales – indeed – were done –
Alas, how heedless were the eyes –
On whom the summer shone!
The quiet nonchalance of death –
No Daybreak – can bestir –
The slow – Archangel’s syllables
Must awaken her!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Like Noah’s Raven,
and the Dove
Andrea Skevington
Snippet:
Can I let hope fly, send out birds
to brood and hover
over the chaos,
like Noah, with the raven,
and the dove?
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Key Scriptures:
Genesis 9:8-17
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B First Sunday in Lent
Date:
Monday, February 12, 2024