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This resource relating to 2 Peter 3:8-15 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting the power of patience and a poem by Mary Oliver (1935-2019) highlighting the cultivation of patience.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Peter 3:8-15a
CLASSIC POEM:
Patience
Emily Dickinson
Patience – has a quiet Outer –
Patience – Look within –
Is an Insect’s futile forces
Infinites – between –
‘Scaping one – against the other
Fruitlesser to fling –
Patience – is the Smile’s exertion
Through the quivering –
*** This poem is in the public domain,
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Patience
Mary Oliver
…
There wasn’t
time enough for all the wonderful things
I could think of to do
in a single day. Patience
comes to the bones
before it takes root in the heart
as another good idea.
…
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Key Scriptures:
2 Peter 3:8-15
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Second Sunday of Advent
Date:
Monday, December 4, 2023