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.