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This resource relating to 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 provides a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) highlighting perseverance in difficulty and a poem by Pauli Murray (1910-1985) highlighting hope amidst despair.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
CLASSIC POEM:
Be Not Weary
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sometimes, when I am toil-worn and aweary,
All tired out, with working long, and well,
And earth is dark, and skies above are dreary,
And heart and soul are all too sick to tell,
These words have come to me, like angel fingers,
Pressing the spirit eyelids down in sleep.
“Oh let us not be weary in well doing,
For in due season we shall surely reap.”
Oh blessed promise! when I seem to hear it,
Whispered by angel voices on the air,
It breathes new life, and courage to my spirit,
And gives me strength to suffer and forbear.
And I can wait most patiently for harvest,
And cast my seeds, nor ever faint, nor weep,
If I know surely, that my work availeth,
And in God’s season, I at last shall reap.
When mind and body were borne down completely
And I have thought my efforts were all vain,
These words have come to me, so softly, sweetly,
And whispered hope, and urged me on again.
And though my labor seems all unavailing,
And all my strivings fruitless, yet the Lord
Doth treasure up each little seed I scatter,
And sometime, sometime, I shall reap reward.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Dark Testament, Verse 8
Pauli Murray
SNIPPET:
Hope is a crushed stalk
Between clenched fingers
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2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 28 (Ordinary Time 33)
Date:
Monday, November 7, 2022