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This resource relating to Acts 16:16-34 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) suggesting that freedom and joy are found within and a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) urging prisoners to cultivate strength.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Acts 16:16-34
CLASSIC POEM:
I never hear the word “Escape”
Emily Dickinson
I never hear the word “Escape”
Without a quicker blood,
A sudden expectation –
A flying attitude!
I never hear of prisons broad
By soldiers battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars
Only to fail again!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
To Prisoners
Gwendolyn Brooks
SNIPPET:
I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.
Dark gardening
in the vertigo cold.
in the hot paralysis.
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Key Scriptures:
Acts 16:16-34
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Narrative lectionary week:
NL442 Paul and Silas
Date:
Monday, May 2, 2022