Posts Tagged "prayer"
Prayer for Peace – A Meditation
sit in your room don’t go beyond the confines of your self sit with every rage and disappointment every unmet desire unwrap the layers of your powerless cries sit with every wish that never came true every insult every time you felt shame sit in the pools of fear disguised as hate strip away every defense all the blame the impulses to lash out– and then, begin your prayer for...
Read MorePray for Peace
Pray to whoever you kneel down to: Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross, his suffering face bent to kiss you, Buddha still under the Bo tree in scorching heat, Yahweh, Allah, raise your arms to Mary that she may lay her palm on our brows, to Shekinhah, Queen of Heaven and Earth, to Inanna in her stripped descent. Hawk or Wolf, or the Great Whale, Record Keeper of time before,...
Read MoreShort Prayer of Thanks
Lord, thank you for this time to be, to see and live in harmony. Thank you for sanctifying each act and thought, for teaching me that the heart’s expansion and contraction is just a natural part of being human. Thank you for accepting my many imperfections hanging out for all to see like laundry on the line. Thank you for showing me with such equanimity that life is so much wider than my...
Read MoreNowhere to Hide
Help me stay awake to every moment of this day the events I like and those I don’t – equally welcomed in my sight, or at least not pushed away. Help me celebrate the simple truths, the march of clouds across blue sky, the scent of purple hyacinths, the small green pea shoots pushing up from seeds. If I am made in your image and likeness, may my heart grow wider and wider until nothing...
Read MoreThe Summer Day
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down, who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now...
Read MoreThe Lord’s Prayer; a Direct Translation
One possible translation of “Our Father” directly from the Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke) into English (rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English) ” O Birther! Father-Mother osf the Cosmos, Focus your light within us -make it useful: Create you reign of Unity now- Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms. Grant what we nee each day...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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