God's Help

*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Isaiah 50:4-9a CLASSIC POEM: O God, our help in ages past Isaac Watts O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home: Under the shadow of your throne your saints have dwelt secure; sufficient is your arm alone, and our defense is sure. Before the hills in order stood, or earth received its frame, from everlasting you are God, to endless years the same. A thousand ages in your sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, soon bears us all away; we fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the op’ning day. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, still be our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home! *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: To David, About His Education Howard Nemerov Found in: War Stories SNIPPET: The world is full of mostly invisible things, And there is no way but putting the mind’s eye, Or its nose, in a book, to find them out, … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]