A Blessing for the Fire in Your Bones

I bless your bones

To feel God’s call

Like a fire

Burning

In your marrow—

A blaze of grace

And power

And truth

That can’t be snuffed

Even if you were to try.

Jeremiah wanted to stop—

To stop preaching,

To stop prophesying,

To stop proclaiming

But he could not.

When he tried to contain

The fire

He “became weary with holding it in”

And he could not.

The attempt to extinguish

The fiery call of God

Left him more spent

Than did the cost of preaching

The name of the Lord.

So Jeremiah kept going

Because the fire kept burning.

I bless the burning of the Spirit

In you, child of God.

Let His love blaze in the depths

Of your soul—

Let His love blaze.