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This resource relating to Psalm 84:1-7 provides a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) using a sparrow to symbolize freedom and hope and a poem by Malcolm Guite highlighting a desire to be in God's church.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 84:1-7
CLASSIC POEM:
The Sparrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A little bird, with plumage brown,
Beside my window flutters down,
A moment chirps its little strain,
Ten taps upon my window–pane,
And chirps again, and hops along,
To call my notice to its song;
But I work on, nor heed its lay,
Till, in neglect, it flies away.
So birds of peace and hope and love
Come fluttering earthward from above,
To settle on life’s window–sills,
And ease our load of earthly ills;
But we, in traffic’s rush and din
Too deep engaged to let them in,
With deadened heart and sense plod on,
Nor know our loss till they are gone.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Quam dilecta!
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
Yahweh saves, Our God is merciful
And how I long to enter in his courts
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Psalm 84:1-7
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 25 (Ordinary Time 30)
Date:
Monday, October 17, 2022