The Son of Man

*** Narrative Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Luke 2:41-52 CLASSIC POEM: The Son of Man Charles O’Donnell He lit the lily’s lamp of snow And fired the rose’s sunset heart, He timed the light’s long ebb and flow And drove the coursing winds apart. He gathered armfuls of the dew And shook it over earth again, He spread the heaven’s cloth of blue And topped the fields with plenteous grain. He tuned the stars to minstrelsy As twilight soft, as bird song wild, Who learned beside His Mother’s knee His prayers like any other child. [ Learn more about this poem ] *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: From the Childhood of Jesus Robert Pinsky SNIPPET: One Saturday morning he went to the river to play. He molded twelve sparrows out of the river clay And scooped a clear pond, with a dam of twigs and mud. Around the pond he set the birds he had made, Evenly as the hours. Jesus was five. He smiled, As a child would who had made a little world … [ READ THE FULL POEM]