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This resource relating to Isaiah 50:4-9 provides a poem by Amy Lowell (1874-1925) encouraging self-reflection for recognizing one's inner beauty and a poem by Veronica Aaronson highlighting the art of listening.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Isaiah 50:4-9a
CLASSIC POEM:
Listening
Amy Lowell
’T is you that are the music, not your song.
The song is but a door which, opening wide,
Lets forth the pent-up melody inside,
Your spirit’s harmony, which clear and strong
Sing but of you. Throughout your whole life long
Your songs, your thoughts, your doings, each divide
This perfect beauty; waves within a tide,
Or single notes amid a glorious throng.
The song of earth has many different chords;
Ocean has many moods and many tones
Yet always ocean. In the damp Spring woods
The painted trillium smiles, while crisp pine cones
Autumn alone can ripen. So is this
One music with a thousand cadences.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Art of Listening
Veronica Aaronson
SNIPPET:
Hunt out wild flowers,
reach out, not to pick them
but as an offer of intimacy.
Stay open-hearted,
don’t put your ear
to the ground to listen
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Isaiah 50:4-9
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Liturgy of the Palms
Year C Liturgy of the Passion
Date:
Sunday, April 6, 2025