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This resource relating to Psalm 30 provides a poem by Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) highlighting humanity's desire for joy and a poem by Ross Gay highlighting joy that results from love.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 30
CLASSIC POEM:
Joy
Robinson Jeffers
Though joy is better than sorrow, joy is not great;
Peace is great, strength is great.
Not for joy the stars burn, not for joy the vulture
Spreads her gray sails on the air
Over the mountain; not for joy the worn mountain
Stands, while years like water
Trench his long sides. “I am neither mountain nor bird
Nor star; and I seek joy.”
The weakness of your breed: yet at length quietness
Will cover those wistful eyes.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Wedding Poem
Ross Gay
SNIPPET:
Friends I am here to modestly report
seeing in an orchard
in my town
a goldfinch kissing
a sunflower
again and again
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[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Psalm 30
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Third Sunday of Easter
Date:
Monday, April 25, 2022