Summer Stillness - A Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

O Love,

 Saturate me

 With Your summer stillness

 Opening deep within

 The space unnameable 

 Formed by You

 For Your mystery

 Of unfolding love.

Pause me with scents

 Scattered by flowers

 Coming into bloom

 Fed by Your sun and rain.

Fix my gaze 

 On your gentle motion

 Of morning sun rising

 And landing on everything

 In joyful abandon

 Born of Your abundance.

Let me rest in You

 Trusting Your promise

 Announced by birds

 Singing their summer song.

By this of You 

 May worry be put to rest

 And wonder be given space

 To rise in worship of You

 And all You make possible

 In Your grand unfolding

 Hinted at and revealed

 By flowers and birds

 And daily revolutions

 Of eternity’s evolution. 

Yes, baptize me anew

 With this of Your spirit

 And Your saturating

 Summer stillness…

-DMLH, July 2024