Wednesday, October 12, 2011

An Expanded Lord's Prayer in Response

L: Our Father, who is in Heaven,
P: And in every particle of Creation,
every stone and tree,
every bird and bee,
every food producing field,
and in all the farmers' labors yield.
L: Haollwed be Your name.
P: Yahweh, Mother, Creator, Great Spirit,
we honor your name and draw near it.
L: Your Kingdom come, Your will be done,
on Earth as it is in heaven.
P: May love endure,
and hearts be pure,
may all wars cease,
with hate's release,
may all the gruits of God's creation,
be shared equally by every nation.
L: Give us this day our daily bread.
P: Grown in the gift of Earth's rich soil,
raised into grain by the farmer's toil,
Ground by the miller's turning wheel,
then baked rich brown for our own meal.
L: And Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
P: Our debt to the seed that died in the ground,
to yeild the wheat berry long and round,
our debt to the miner, machinist and more,
who made possible the machines that fill our store.
L: And lead us not into temptation
P: The temptation to eat more than we need,
to yield to wants and nurture greed,
to clamim as our own another's share,
to staore away without a care.
L: But deliver us from evil.
P: From evil thought and evil act,
from evil plan and evil pact,
That adds to the destructive toll,
of that which kills the human soul
 L: For Your is the Kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever and ever.
L: There is none other. You are the One,
revealed in creation, in Spirit and in Son.

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