A Pentecost Prayer: Turning Toward the Fire of Love, with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Prayers and Ponderings

Turning Toward the Fire of Love - A Pentecost Prayer
by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

O Love,

Let me turn

Aside in awe

Of morning’s fire

Rising in silences

That speak a Word

Recreating the world.

Your Holy Presence

Unnameable, yet voicing

A song within uncontainable.

Your “yes” of yearning

Meeting hearts that burn

In hurt and hope

Of all that dares to rise

In resurrection’s answer

To every period

Placed by the world's way

As the final word.

Yes, Love,

Let me turn aside

And see the fire

Of the morning sky

Begging me to pause

Into the pulse of Pentecost’s

Flame of love

Uncontrollable as light

Rising and landing

On everything and everyone

Without exception

In reckless abandon.

Let Your “yes”

Be answered by my own

Granting again and again

My heart’s deepest desire

Discovering the truth

That You never stop

Holding the whole creation

Drenching it with the fire

Of Your Holy Love.