I wrote a letter to the Holy Spirit in my prayer time as Pentecost is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and would like to share it with you. I hope you can pray along with it as you read the words of petition, thanksgiving and praise.
O Holy Spirit, come breathe in me. Let my dry bones become alive again. Come Holy Spirit wave a banner of love over me. Help me to be faithful.
Anoint my wounds and create new life from the scars and scabs of my sins and from the suffering in life. You alone can set me free.
Reawaken me. Don’t let me sleep in my spiritual life. Awaken my soul that I may be fruitful for your glory Lord.
You will not leave me alone. I don’t want to live alone. Live in me so that I may be one with God. I need you in this situation, Come. Make room in my heart, renovate it, revive it, restore it. Holy Spirit, whisper love into my soul. I feel like I am in an earthquake and a flood with the things going on. Help me to not grasp things but to hold on to you for strength. You can bring freedom to me.
Press into my life all that is good and beautiful and holy. Burn everything away until all I have is you. This is a bold prayer, I am looking for beauty and freedom.
Great Helper, you are a giver of good gifts. Aid me in my distress, comfort me in my struggle. Spirit of truth I need to hear what is true. Thank you for making my life into a work of art. Your light shines in my soul and clears out all that is dusty, dirty and broken.
You are like a great and mighty wind that whips the earth with wildness. Move and make me healthier than the medicine I take daily.
Mold and fashion me into a docile soul that listens to the will of the Lord with gladness.
Enlighten my thoughts that I may always have the presence of God in every activity and daily task I do. Continually, pour your holy oil into my wounded areas. I want to be fragrant with love. I want good fruit to blossom and ripen, so others may be nourished in the love of the Lord.
Build a strong castle in my soul with many rooms. Fill each room with joy and love. That I may have a palace to go to when I am weak. To take and share the fruits of the Spirit love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
“The Holy Spirit, making life alive, moving in all things, root of all created being, cleansing the cosmos of every impurity, effacing guilt, anointing wounds. You are lustrous and praiseworthy life, You waken and reawaken everything that is.” St. Hildegard of Bingen
Hope springs from the depths of my being like a plant bursting through the dark soil in Spring. You are the life inside me that wants to stretch out like a flower reaching for the sun on a warm day. You are the water that blesses the earth when it rains. Reign down on me and cleanse me of my pride, fear and doubt.
Holy Spirit, thank you for blessing me with joy, peace and love and fullness of life. You are a dream maker, miracle worker, and light in the darkness. No matter the uncertainty I can rely on you to guide my footsteps and to fill me with hope.
Be here with me today that I may live my life in God’s grace and mercy. I worship you!
Amen.