Here
is a Pentecost reflection from Jessica Power, OCD. It was posted on And with Your Spirit.
Pentecost Reflection
To
live with the Spirit of God is to be a listener.
It
is to keep the vigil of mystery,
earthless
and still.
One
leans to catch the stirring of the Spirit,
strange
as the wind’s will.
The
soul that walks where the wind of the Spirit blows
turns
like a wandering weather-vane toward love.
It
may lament like Job or Jeremiah,
echo
the wounded hart, the mateless dove.
It
may rejoice in spaciousness of meadow
that
emulates the freedom of the sky.
Always
it walks in waylessness, unknowing;
it
has cast down forever from its hand
the
compass of the whither and the why.
To
live with the Spirit of God is to be a lover.
It
is becoming love, and like to Him
toward
Whom we strain with metaphors of creatures:
fire-sweep
and water-rush and the wind’s whim.
The
soul is all activity, all silence;
and
though it surges Godward to its goal,
it
holds, as moving earth holds sleeping noonday,
the
peace that is the listening of the soul.
~
written by Jessica Powers, OCD. Posted on And
with Your Spirit. http://andwithyourspirit.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/to-live-with-the-spirit/
