The Holy Spirit Song
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I’ve written lyrics for several songs. One, “God Inhabits our Praise,” was in fact on an album named Beyond a Doubt recorded by the multi-award-winning singing group Acappella.
Most of my poetry is free verse, but I occasionally write lyrics still. Here’s another one I hope speaks to you.
(*However, I must say that since I became Orthodox, I no longer feel that void within described in this poem. The Holy Spirit is now in residence, in a way I never dreamed possible. All glory to God.)
So let me read this poem to you. I’m traveling and without a good microphone, but in a way the echoing of this recording somehow kind of fits, don’t you think?
The Holy Spirit Song
There's deep inside me
A Spirit-sized space
Oh, Holy Spirit
Come fill that place
I read the stories
Of heroes of old
You indwelt with power
Yet I feel so cold
Doesn’t Your power
Transcend space and time?
Your dunamis power
Why isn’t it mine?
Where’s that explosion
That overcomes self?
I’m losing my battles,
Desperate for help
A Father gives good things,
To children, You said.
No serpents or scorpions
When we need Your bread
I’m asking, we’re asking
Admitting this need
No other resources
Please come, intercede
How can we persuade You
We’re bankrupt, worn out
Sin seizes its chances
You’re muffled by doubt
I’m asking, we’re asking
Admitting this need
No other resources
Please come, intercede
Bring that explosion
That overcomes self
I’m losing my battles,
Desperate for help
There’s deep inside me
A Spirit-sized space
Oh Holy Spirit
Come take Your place
What in Orthodoxy fills this space? Was it a teaching, an acceptance, a difference? I have learned more about His Excellency the Holy Spirit for your learning in and teaching about the Bible. I would love to know.
How very cool. I never knew.