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This resource relating to Psalm 32 provides a poem by Isaac Watts (1674-1748) highlighting forgiveness and a poem by John O'Donohue (1956-2008) highlighting the lasting effects of pain we unknowingly cause others.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Psalm 32
CLASSIC POEM:
Psalm 32 Part1
Isaac Watts
Blest is the man, for ever blest,
Whose guilt is pardoned by his God;
Whose sins with sorrow are confessed,
And covered with his Savior’s blood.
Blest is the man to whom the Lord
Imputes not his iniquities;
He pleads no merit of reward,
And not on works, but grace relies.
From guile his heart and lips are free;
His humble joy, his holy fear,
With deep repentance well agree,
And join to prove his faith sincere.
How glorious is that righteousness
That hides and cancels all his sins,
While a bright evidence of grace
Through his whole life appears and shine!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
For Someone Who
Did You Wrong
John O’Donohue
Found in:
To Bless the Space Between Us:
A Book of Blessings
SNIPPET:
Though its way is to strike
In a dumb rhythm,
Stroke upon stroke,
As though the heart
Were an anvil,
The hurt you sent
Had a mind of its own.
Something in you knew
Exactly how to shape it,
To hit the target
Slipping into the heart
Through some wound-window
Left open since childhood.
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Year A First Sunday in Lent
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Monday, February 20, 2023