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This resource relating to Acts 17:22-31 provides a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) highlighting a yearning for God and a poem by Denise Levertov (1923-1997) highlighting God's presence.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Acts 17:22-31
CLASSIC POEM:
To the Unknown God
Friedrich Nietzsche
(This translation found in Janko Lavrin,
Nietzsche and Modern Consciousness, 1922)
Once more, before my vision turns
To strange horizons, untried lands,
To thee I lift my lonely hands
For whom my spirit yearns,
To whom, within its ultimate shrine,
Are solemn altars dedicate
While yet I wait
The summoning voice to claim me thine.
Thereon is writ in characters ablaze
The deep-cut legend, “To the Unknown God”;
For his am I, although my feet have trod,
Even to this hour, in foul and miry ways,
Yea, I will know thee, great Unknown,
Who shakest the foundations of my soul,
Urgent and clamorous as the thunder’s roll.
Eternally apart, eternally my own,
Yea, I will know thee — I will serve thee.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
“In Whom We Live
and Move and Have Our Being”
Denise Levertov
SNIPPET:
Birds afloat in air’s current,
sacred breath? No, not breath of God,
it seems, but God
the air enveloping the whole
globe of being.
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Acts 17:22-31
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Year A Sixth Sunday of Easter
Date:
Monday, May 8, 2023