May 15, 2016

TONGUES  OF  FIRE

Spirit,

God,

Holy Spirit,

You call us

to be prophets -
that is people 
not scared to speak up.

You light a fire in us  -

to get us to ask,

to seek,

to knock
and then to listen -
then to do whatever it takes -

to get us to talk to each other -

especially when we don’t know

why the other is avoiding us -

or refusing to tell us
what’s burning them about us.

Come!

Send those tongues of fire

to both of us because 
it seems that the fire
called "love" has gone out -

and we feel like a burnt out case -
someone the other 
does not want to deal with.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016