The Lord's Prayer in the original Aramaic for those that are suffering

You may like to say a prayer for the people in the world who are suffering. On Boxing Day women and children were hacked to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/scores-killed-in-machete-attack-on-congolese-churchgoers-1216247.html



Our positive intentions do make a difference when they are coming from a pure heart.

Lords Prayer, from the original Aramaic
Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos

O Birther! Father- Mother of the Cosmos

Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now-

through our fiery hearts and willing hands

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

Amen.

FOR THE BEREAVED

LEAVING OUR HOUSE

We leave the physical realm when our lease runs out and it is time for us to create something new.

As we leave our temple shrine, we bring together all that was, all that is and all that there could ever be.

We accept the pathways that we walked, the talk and the service that we did provide.

Now reunited with the Godhead once again coming into full bloom like the power of the full moon.

Let us pray for the magic to begin, another time, another place, a different dimension from the one that we once knew.

May peace be with you

Written for a lady that was bereaved in January 2003

Alternative translation / interpetation of Lords Prayer