Fire

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* Peter pray for me
* Holy Spirit descend on all who read
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“…his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones.” – Jeremiah 20:9
“’Is not my word like fire,’ declares the LORD, ‘and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?’” – Jeremiah 23:29

+-----The Emo Bible Acts Chapter 2; Fire; Peter’s Thoughts Before the Descent Of The Holy Spirit

What do you when communal
abutted bodies aren’t enough? When
you stand shoulder to shoulder,
hand in hand, with your brothers
and sisters as bundled wood begging
for the stoking, begging for some
evidence of smoke,
but there is no heat
and your heart grows colder
amidst conversations meant to foster
encouragement, and your soul
has nothing left to give save some residual
soot of optimism from a past life
long forgotten since now every
discussion touched upon borders
on rancor? (Teeth chattering,
numb rigormortis of friends)
When you are supposed to speak
resurrection, marriage, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, romance,
salvation and children but instead rising
inside,
glacial air ascending to clouds,
a blizzard of unfeeling,
your words turn into ghosts’ speech
in guttural tones, hissing
utterances of the death adder:
dying, hatred, envy, disconsolation
and disbelief?
Oh if only warm winds
of inspiration would blow, a tempest
born of the torches of faith, hope,
and love come to thaw and melt!!!
Oh if the earth would shake!!! (We pray
for peals of thunder, we pray
for peals of thunder)
We would lift our eyes from
depths of our doldrums,
and stare at our smoldering irises.
Our very tongues would alight
and our breath would smell
of blessed cinder freshly kindled.
We would walk,
and from our toenails ash and embers
would flake off with every elated step
towards the Utopian ideals we
lost when Jesus died. The memories
of us, the worst of us thrown into
conflagration of this new resolve,
would blaze behind us,
seared by the increasing warmth of
better tomorrows, David holding the
head of Goliath in his hands,
the hushed silence of the once
mocking and decrying Philistines
humiliatingly sustained. I can see it
now, these great liberating balls of flames
falling from the sky, all of us
jubilantly exclaiming
in unison in one room,
talking in every language known
to man boasting of the Good News
received as revelation
(Jews speaking as Parthians,
and Medes and Elamites):
THE END OF THE EMPIRE
THAT CRUCIFIES ITS CITIZENS IN THE COLD!
Rome is burning
Rome is burning
Rome is burning


(Finally)


-----Acts 2:1-21
And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak, Galileans? And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another: What meaneth this? But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine. But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and with your ears receive my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day: But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord,) I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And upon my servants indeed, and upon my handmaids will I pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.