A Prayer

This is a prayer that my brother composed while he was praying for his vocation. I believe that the Holy Spirit embraced him with an overflowing love that could only come from God, to comfort him in his times of loneliness and frustration.

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You are the flame, I am the candle

My soul is the wick that holds the flame

Flicker a spark and light up my soul

I am but an instrument of your love

Indeed, in the darkness, O God

,You kindled a fire in my soulin an instant, 

a spark, 

a glimpseof which I can not still comprehend

incomparable, on this dark wide night tempests amount to suppress your light

keep your light burning, your fire , the love you've placed within my heart

Cover me, o God from the rain 

that the flame continually burn

Shield me O God from the wind that threatens to fan out the flame

Support me O God from the earth firm through the tremors and sways

Protect me O God from fiery firelest i be devoured and consumed

For your flame is not the fire that devours

your's is the light that softly glows

Unequaled in greatness yet never pressing

A wonder, how swiftly and gently it flows

Breath into me, O God,that the fire ignited engulf me in time 

keep the flame burning 

Enflame me with your enduring love

Breath into me, O God that the fire in me illumine others

let it show the way 

the way that travails through the void

Breath into me, O God

rekindle others', the weak's, the mindless'

the half burnt wicks of those that stand by

Breath onto me, O God

Especially when the flame flickers

Strengthen me in desolation

Embrace me with your inspirations

O burn me with the fire of your love

into your light melt my human form

smoldering suffering I must face, 

let me do so with delight

I await the day my humanity melts to the ground

Extinguish not the flame, this but I pray

'til the last wisp of smoke, 

the breath of my soul purifed, 

ascends to join you at last.

that your flame now ablaze

-atlin