prayer of Yeshua

Do we need yet another version of the Lord's Prayer, I hear you ask? Well I think everyone should write their own version; it may not be the world's greatest prayer, but it is deeply embedded in our culture, and most people can still recite it even after years and years of not doing so. Also, it was itself a version of the classic Jewish prayer the Kaddish, so why not create new versions of it?

So, here's my version.

O Genderless Engenderer,

Flame of life at the heart of all things,

Holy, holy, holy are your names.

Your republic of informed hearts is always within us and around us.

Your mysterious way unfolds before us

as matter and spirit dance together to create life.

May the finite tell its stories to the infinite

and may the infinite lend its everlasting peace to the finite.

May our hearts be open to forgiveness given and received,

and may we move accurately in harmony with all

and remain present in the now.

The republic of heaven on earth is all and each of us

reverberating with glory and power

in infinite space-time.

Amen.

UPDATE: I have removed the link to the Nazarene Way website, because there are issues with the "translations" there. The Aramaic blog explains all.

Happy Vertumnalia

Today is the festival of Vertumnus, the lover of Pomona.

I like this story because Vertumnus appears in disguise to woo Pomona, and wins her by his eloquence. Because of his disguise, he is the god of seasons, change and growth. I also love the turning seasons, and approve strongly of change and growth.

Wikimedia Commons has an interesting selection of pictures of Vertumnus in a very convincing disguise.

But I prefer the word-picture painted by Ursula Fanthorpe in her poem, Pomona and Vertumnus.