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This resource relating to 2 Samuel 7:1-16 provides a poem by George MacDonald (1824-1905) highlighting a desire to see God's face and a poem by Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) that describes seeing beauty in ordinary places.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Samuel 7:1-11,16
CLASSIC POEM:
After King David
George Macdonald
I shall be satisfied
With the seeing of thy face.
When I awake, wide-eyed,
I shall be satisfied
With what this life did hide,
The one supernal grace!
I shall be satisfied
With the seeing of thy face.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The One
Patrick Kavanagh
SNIPPET:
Green, blue, yellow and red –
God is down in the swamps and marshes
Sensational as April and almost incred-
ible the flowering of our catharsis.
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Key Scriptures:
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Fourth Sunday of Advent
Date:
Monday, December 14, 2020