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This resource relating to Romans 10:5-15 provides a poem by Edwin Markham (1852-140) highlighting the unifying nature of love and a poem by Emily Warn highlighting the power of words.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Romans 10:5-15
CLASSIC POEM:
Outwitted
Edward Markham
HE DREW a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Tabernacle
Emily Warn
SNIPPET:
Hope fills me this morning as I fashion letters
into a tree that sighs, that stays put yet moves,
reaching to its limits, swaying and settling,
a compass pointing to its place on earth
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[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Romans 10:5-15
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 14 (Ordinary Time 19)
Date:
Monday, August 7, 2023