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This resource relating to John 9:1-41 provides a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) contemplating the miracle of sight and a poem by Ted Kooser portraying a blind woman's experience with light.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: John 9:1-41
CLASSIC POEM:
Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O what a life is the eye! what a strange and inscrutable essence!
Him, that is utterly blind, nor glimpses the fire that warms him;
Him that never beheld the swelling breast of his mother;
Him that smiled in his gladness as a babe that smiles in its slumber;
Even for him it exists! It moves and stirs in its prison!
Lives with a separate life: and—“Is it a spirit!” he murmurs:
“Sure, it has thoughts of its own, and to see is only a language!”
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
A Blind Woman
Ted Kooser
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Weather Central
SNIPPET:
She had turned her face up into
a rain of light, and came on smiling.
The light trickled down her forehead
and into her eyes. It ran down
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John 9
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Fourth Sunday in Lent
Date:
Monday, March 13, 2023