The Call
Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life
A threefold prayer inviting Christ as Way, Truth, Life; Light, Feast, Strength; Joy, Love, Heart.
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: a Way that gives us breath, a Truth that ends all strife, a Life that kills death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength: a Light that shows a feast: a Feast that grows better the longer it lasts: a Strength that makes his guest.1 Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart—a Joy that no one can shake, a Love that no one can tear apart, a Heart that rejoices in love.✦
Read the original English
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way, as gives us breath: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: And such a Life, as killeth death.
Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength: Such a Light, as shows a feast: Such a Feast, as mends in length: Such a Strength, as makes his guest.
Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart: Such a Joy, as none can move: Such a Love, as none can part: Such a Heart, as joyes in love.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.8.38-Rom.8.39 — For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither the present nor the future, nor powers Rom.8.39 — nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord
Notes
- 1 ↩Herbert's 'mends in length' means the feast improves as it is prolonged—not merely that it is repaired, but that duration itself makes it better.
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