Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.
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Hearing the Celestial Voices
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Pots Turned on the Wheel of Life
Jeremiah imagines God as a destructive potter. For Longfellow, the potter is inscrutable destiny.
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See, This Coal Has Touched Your Lips
The image of God touching the lips of Isaiah and Jeremiah shows up in C.S. Lewis’s “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”
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