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This resource relating to Psalm 126 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) exploring the joy of life and a poem by Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) embracing joy in the face of hardship.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 126
CLASSIC POEM:
T’is So Much Joy
Emily Dickinson
’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty!
And yet, as poor as I
Have ventured all upon a throw;
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
This side the victory!
Life is but life, and death but death!
Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
And if, indeed, I fail,
At least to know the worst is sweet.
Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can prevail!
And if I gain,—oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the steeples be,
At first repeat it slow!
For heaven is a different thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o’erwhelm me so!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Shout Joy
Madeleine L’Engle
SNIPPET:
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Jah!
he cannot be caught
he cannot be fled
he cannot be known
nor his knowledge escaped
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NL222 Parables in Mark
Date:
Tuesday, January 2, 2024