Friday Musings

Come Holy Spirit Poem – Author Unknown

Come, Holy Spirit, come in power

You wish us all to bloom and flower

Fill us now with all we need

Change us, as on you we feed.

Help us concentrate on you

Waiting for your point of view

Show us where we need to change

Our priorities, rearrange.

Lead us to the precious Lamb

Loving God’s most loving plan

Let us celebrate love now

And to God let’s make a vow.

We desire to seek God’s face

Put love and hope in proper place

The reason for all we say and do

Come, Holy Spirit, help us to.

Litany to the Holy Spirit – By Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

In the hour of my distress,

When temptations me oppress,

And when I my sins confess,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When I lie within my bed,

Sick in heart and sick in head,

And with doubts discomforted,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the house doth sigh and weep,

And the world is drown'd in sleep,

Yet mine eyes the watch do keep,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the passing bell doth toll,

And the Furies in a shoal

Come to fright a parting soul,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the tapers now burn blue,

And the comforters are few,

And that number more than true,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the priest his last hath pray'd,

And I nod to what is said,

'Cause my speech is now decay'd,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When, God knows, I'm toss'd about

Either with despair or doubt;

Yet before the glass be out,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the tempter me pursu'th

With the sins of all my youth,

And half damns me with untruth,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the flames and hellish cries

Fright mine ears and fright mine eyes,

And all terrors me surprise,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

When the Judgment is reveal'd,

And that open'd which was seal'd,

When to Thee I have appeal'd,

         Sweet Spirit, comfort me!