Invoking the Future

In March, I met Tiffany Montavon of Faith@Work (www.faithatwork.com). This wonderful project and magazine are dedicated to helping people explore gifts and callings as we do God's work in our daily lives. Here's a breath-taking poem written for the Summer 2008 issue by Klaus Luthardt.

Invoking the Future

Oh Christ, who are the breath
of God when love is foremost,
Inspired Word, you have come forth
many times; come forth even now
into the heart of God's child,
the human race. Demonstrate
in us the gifts of the spirit,
making the minds, merely bright,
fit instruments of helping and healing,
applying knowledge through love.
Come and be in us, be among us,
great inspiration, breath divine
whose essence makes us new
with every in-breath of our soul,
then emanates from us, exhalation
of your healing through us.
Let us, instruments of your love,
pass on to all we meet, the secret of goodness.
In thought, in word, in deed, let us labor
in the sound of your sacred word.