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This resource relating to Matthew 11:16-30 provides a poem by John Milton (1608-1674) highlighting the physical limitations created by blindness and a poem by Wendell Berry highlighting the restorative power of nature.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
CLASSIC POEM:
When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait.”
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
SNIPPET:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
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Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 9 (Ordinary Time 14)
Date:
Sunday, July 2, 2023