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This resource relating to Colossians 2:6-19 provides a poem by Else Gidlow (1898-1986) accepting the ups and downs of life and a poem by Dorianne Laux exploring the nature of life and death.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Colossians 2:6-19
CLASSIC POEM:
Roots
Else Gidlow
O heavily weighing earth! O grim travail
In sunless silence with no hope of light!
O impotent wine! O bracken-food of pain!
I accept you all. I accept the timeless blight
Of crawling like a worm with unclean things,
Of being forever a yearning voiceless root
Bedded in this unwarmed oblivion
So that the great sun mellow my ultimate fruit.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Roots
Dorianne Laux
SNIPPET:
The pine clings to the cliff side, angles
seaward above the waves, its exposed roots
attended by flowering weeds. Those fingers
will someday lose their grip. This is clear
to any one of us. And I believe the tree, too,
knows its long life will be cut short and
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Colossians 2:6-19
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 12 (Ordinary Time 17)
Date:
Monday, July 18, 2022