TO LIVE WITH THE SPIRIT

BY JESSICA POWERS(SISTER MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT)

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

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.

By Erick Ferreira

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.

By Alba Grembi

Always it walks in waylessness, unknowing;

it has cast down forever from its hand

the compass of the whither and the why.

By Johannes Plenio

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.

By Theo Bandelis

TO LIVE WITH THE SPIRIT

BY JESSICA POWERS(SISTER MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT)