Call to Voyage

Fàilte / Welcome to Prayers and Mediations with Poet Craig A. Roberts from Scriptorium Aotearoa.  

Contemplative Cue

Let the Holy Spirit

be your Companion

across unimagined wastelands,

between mind and soul,

where lost spiritual sensibilities

become awakened

by Divine revelation. 

Ode to a Long-Haul Voyage

O let it be,

in heavy swells,

where white waves chant,

wailing winds pulsate

and humpback whales breach;

there amid ocean’s power 

let me hear the silent 

turning of the tides-

God’s transforming hand.

O let it be, 

the economy 

of my driving powers - 

intellect, desires and will -

be transformed 

by An Gèadh Fiadhaich

in the Living Word,

the One who formed

the surge of the sea.

O let it be, 

on a long-haul voyage

with An Gèadh Fiadhaich

my curach currents pull 

over upwelling seas.

From murmuring depths

of heart, soul and mind

births God’s magnum opus,

‘The Changing of the Tides’.

Notes on Language use of Scots Gaelic

An Gèadh Fiadhaich: “The Wild Goose,” the poetic name for the Holy Spirit - untamed by humanity.

Curach / Curragh (Irish): Small boat made of wickerwork covered in watertight material (Leather, canvas).

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