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This resource relating to Romans 5:1-8 provides a poem by George Herbert (1593-1633) highlighting the gift of God's grace and a poem by Joy Harjo highlighting a search for grace.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Romans 5:1-8
CLASSIC POEM:
Grace
George Herbert
My stock lies dead, and no increase
Doth my dull husbandrie improve:
O let thy graces without cease
Drop from above!
If still the sunne should hide his face,
Thy house would but a dungeon prove,
Thy works nights captives: O let grace
Drop from above!
The dew doth ev’ry morning fall;
And shall the dew out-strip thy Dove?
The dew, for which grasse cannot call,
Drop from above.
Death is still working like a mole,
And digs my grave at each remove:
Let grace work too, and on my soul
Drop from above.
Sinne is still hammering my heart
Unto a hardnesse, void of love:
Let suppling grace, to crosse his art,
Drop from above.
O come! for thou dost know the way:
Or if to me thou wilt not move,
Remove me, where I need not say,
Drop from above.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Grace
Joy Harjo
SNIPPET:
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So once again we lost a winter in stubborn memory, walked through cheap apartment walls, skated through fields of ghosts into a town that never wanted us, in the epic search for grace.
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Year A Proper 6 (Ordinary Time 11)
Date:
Monday, June 12, 2023