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This resource relating to Psalm 37 provides a poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) highlighting the struggle between hope and doubt and a poem by Mary Karr suggesting that meekness involves power.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
CLASSIC POEM:
Oh Yet We Trust
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete;
That not a worm is cloven in vain;
That not a moth with vain desire
Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire,
Or but subserves another’s gain.
Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last—far off—at last, to all,
And every winter change to spring.
So runs my dream: but what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Who The Meek Are Not
Mary Karr
SNIPPET:
Not the bristle-bearded Igors bent
under burlap sacks, not peasants knee-deep
in the rice-paddy muck,
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Key Scriptures:
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
Date:
Tuesday, February 18, 2025