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This resource relating to Amos 7:7-17 provides a poem by George Herbert (1593-1633) highlighting the multifaceted nature of prayer and a poem by Mark Wagenaar referencing a plumb line in considering the direction a life takes.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Amos 7: 7-17
CLASSIC POEM:
Prayer
George Herbert
Prayer the church’s banquet, angel’s age,
God’s breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth
Engine against th’ Almighty, sinner’s tow’r,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear;
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
The milky way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood,
The land of spices; something understood.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Plumb Line
Mark Wagenaar
SNIPPET:
The plumber’s flashlight shines on the meniscus
of water atop the drain’s face, blank obsidian
to full moon in an instant, moon for a drunken
cricket to drown in…
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Amos 7:7-17
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 10 (Ordinary Time 15)
Date:
Tuesday, July 5, 2022