The line I'd like share tonight isn't even properly a Lenten hymn, tho' the "Evening" section of the hymnal does seem ever more appropriate in this season:
Teach me to live that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die that so I may
Rise glorious at the awesome day.
--Thomas Ken, c. 1674
I really am a Dark Lutheran. There's no denying it.
Teach me to live that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die that so I may
Rise glorious at the awesome day.
--Thomas Ken, c. 1674
I really am a Dark Lutheran. There's no denying it.
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Every Ash Wednesday, among other things, I take another gander at Eliot's poem by that name. There is always another line that catches my fancy, and I spend Lent trying to unravel it.
"Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still."
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