Rainer Maria Rilke - I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all -Poem for the First Sunday in Lent, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the First Sunday in Lent, Year C can be found here)
I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all
Rainer Maria Rilke
to accompany the lectionary reading: Romans 10:8b-13
SNIPPET:
I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all
my fellow creatures, pulsing with your life;
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an Austrian poet and author, renown for his contributions to German literature. His best-known works among English-language readers include the poetry collections Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus, the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet. (via Wikipedia)