Praying with the Bible: From prose to poetry

11 Jul 2022

Recently when on retreat I led some times of engaging with the Bible prayerfully, including turning some of the prose into a poem. I love this rendition that I’ve been given permission to share.

You could read through it slowly, asking God to help your love overflow. Then perhaps spend some time with a passage of your choosing, having a go yourself?

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless…
Philippians 1:9–10, NRSV

Eyes to see,
Ears to hear,
Heart to love,
being and becoming

Knowing to knowledge;
Helpless to helped;
Better to best,
Mercy and forgiveness

Graceless to graceful
Thankless to thankful
God’s love abounds to all around
God’s love, God’s love, you have been found
–Ann Ruby