There’s a God who enflames. He puts fire in the head and though I have run, the wind has never extinguished the flames, though I have swum, the depths have never doused them, though I have sung long, the music has never drowned them out.
So I have sat and I stilled and as the flames settled I found they were a gift, a friend, and that this friendship warmed me. And we ate and storied our way through the nights.
And the flames took hold as intended.
After Sheila Moylan’s exhibition, ‘Fire in the head’, an old Celtic expression describing being illuminated by inspiration. sheilamoylanart.com See also Acts 2 “And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.”