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This resource relating to Hosea 1:2-10 provides a poem by D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) highlighting the enduring bond between man and woman and a poem by Sara Kyoungah White based on Hosea's encounter with Gomer.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Hosea 1:2-10
CLASSIC POEM:
Fidelity
D.H. Lawrence
Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers
in summer, and love, but underneath is rock.
Older than flowers, older than ferns, older than foraminiferae,
older than plasm altogether is the soul underneath.
And when, throughout all the wild chaos of love
slowly a gem forms, in the ancient, once-more-molten rocks
of two human hearts, two ancient rocks,
a man’s heart and a woman’s,
that is the crystal of peace, the slow hard jewel of trust,
the sapphire of fidelity.
The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Gomer
Sara Kyoungah White
SNIPPET:
When morning breaks, beneath the sheets, the wound–
A dehiscence erupted, seeping blood;
A crimson pattern on the white, full-bloomed,
And where the pruned end should be, a bud.
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Key Scriptures:
Hosea 1:2-10
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 12 (Ordinary Time 17)
Date:
Monday, July 18, 2022