Fire Triangle

Allegory of the Charity by Francisco de Zurbarán c.1655

A Poem by Jessica Hanke

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion…I want all that God has or I don’t want any. — A.W Tozer

I have known your presence, heat—

I crave the glory of your face,

energy building, full of glowing, longing.

I have seen your living words, fuel—

layered them around my soul,

held and stacked and gazed.

I have felt the Holy Spirit breathe, flush—

been woken by that unseen force flowing,

blowing life into my immobile parts.

Small like a secret told in smoke, ignited

until flames grow and climb in dancing petals,

big like the existence of a Savior, combusting

sin like a moat around my altar,

evaporated in miraculous blaze—

Heaven, a fiery waterfall

touching earth.

Sustain me, Lord.

I want to burn 

and burn. 

Jessica Hanke is a South African currently living in Switzerland with her husband and two small

children. She writes poetry as she looks for the rays of Light woven into her days.