Lectionary readings (Click the links to see the readings): Isaiah 55.1-9 | Psalm 63.1-9 | 1 Corinthians 10.1-13 | Luke 4.24-30

1997
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Best of any song
is bird song
in the quiet, but first
you must have the quiet.

—Wendell Berry. A timbered choir: the Sabbath poems 1979-1997. New York, Counterpoint, 1992.

1999

The incarnate Word is with us,
is still speaking, is present
always, yet leaves no sign
but everything that is.

—Wendell Berry. Given: new poems. Berkley: Counterpoint, 2005.

Prayer

Almighty and eternal God, you made us of body, soul and spirit, that we live not by bread alone, but by every word that comes from you. We hunger for the spiritual food of your word. As we trust you for our daily bread, may we also trust you to give us day-by-day the inward nourishment of the living truth revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

Kentucky woods in Spring.