Poured Into Our Hearts
A Blessing for Trinity Sunday
by Jan L. Richardson
"And hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love
has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit
that has been given to us."
–Romans 5.5
Like a cup
like a chalice
like a basin
like a bowl
when the Spirit comes
let it find our heart
like this
shaped like something
that knows how to receive
what is given
that knows how to hold
what comes to fill
that knows how to gather itself
around what arrives as
unbidden
unsought
unmeasured
love.