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Poetry
That Inspired Us |
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Great poets have the
ability to feel great spiritual aspirations
and distill them into a very few lines that carry great meaning.
We share these few that have been particularly inspirational.
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From:
The Cure at Troy
by Seamus Heaney
Human beings
suffer
They torture one another
They get hurt and get hard.
For History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But once in a lifetime,
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can well up
And hope and history rhyme. |
From:
The Undertaking
by John Donne
But he who
loveliness within
Hath found all outward loathes,
For he who color loves, and skin,
Loves but their oldest clothes. |
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From:
Little Gidding
by T. S. Eliot
We shall not
cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. |
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We trust these explain what inspired us to recover our congregation’s
history: It’s our pathway to making history creative,
acknowledging our past and thereby enabling our future.
It’s our journey of reconciliation along the continuum from memory to
hope, the hope that Martin Luther King described as “…the day when all of
God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning,
My country ‘tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty.
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrim’s pride,
from every mountainside,
LET FREEDOM RING."
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We hope you, your congregation
and your community will join us on this journey. |
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