God please empow’r me with your spirit to
be quick to listen to folk you bring near,
as well to you, the nearest one to do
communication, more than what I hear;
sometimes you are so close I can reach out
and touch you in a vacuum, in the dark,
& cotton on to your heart, no speech/ shout
is needed then, because you are the spark
of that divine light, which is knowledge true,
& real, and has commitment at its core.
Please make me more like Jesus, who’s like you,
to hear, and take in, as he would ensure
that he was hearing quickly your own thoughts
& hopes & dreams, and will to act and bring
folk’s deepest hopes and wishes, like fish caught
somehow in net by their own deep longings.
I want to be like him, with them & you;
to listen and to hear what’s sent my way.
You made my eyes and ears & skin to do
this picking up of messages that say
things meaningful, which hope to tune in to
the things that are eternal and bring life.
I sense you are now leading me to do
this very thing. Please help me to arrive
at tuning in. I think I really can
trust you to do such magic in this child
of yours (each girl, or boy, or woman, man),
who let's your own Christ-life run in them wild!