The Burning
I’ve come to start a fire… —Luke 12:49-56, The Message In the days when a hearth fire kept the family alive, our ancestors learned to bank the fire before they went to sleep, pushing the logs and coals together to preserve the slow burning. It was important to keep it smoldering through the night, ready to […]
A Burning Fire – Nov. 16, 2020
For the word of God has become for meA reproach and derision all day long.If I say, “I will not mention God,Or speak any more in God’s name,”There is in my heart, as it were, a burning fireShut up in my bones,And I am weary with holding it in,And I cannot.(Jer. 20:8-9)
A Burning Spirit – Aug. 22, 2019
Who is the Holy Spirit?The Holy Spirit is a Burning Spirit.Like tympanum and lyre it plays them,gathering volume in the temple of the soul.The Holy Spirit isLife-giving-life.All movement. Root of all being.Purifier of all impurity.Absolver of all faults.Balm of all wounds.Radiant life, worthy of all praiseThe Holy Spirit resurrects and awakenseverything that is. –Hildegard of […]
The Ship Sunk In Love – July 16, 2019
Should Love’s heart rejoice unless I burn?For my heart is Love’s dwelling.If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!Who will say, “It’s not allowed”?Burn this house thoroughly!The lover’s house improves with fire.From now on I will make burning my aim,From now on I will make burning my aim,for I am like the candle: burning […]
