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This resource relating to Luke 13:1-9 provides a poem by Ross Gay offering an image of community under a fig tree.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Luke 13:1-9
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian
Ross Gay
SNIPPET:
the sound of sweeping
and a woman
yes with a
broom beneath
which you are now
too the canopy
of a fig its
arms pulling the
September sun to it
and she
has a hose too
and so works hard
rinsing and scrubbing
the walk
…
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Luke 13:1-9
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Narrative lectionary week:
NL332 Lament over Jerusalem
Date:
Wednesday, March 12, 2025