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Monday, March 30, 2020

PRAYER: "Finding the Lord's Prayer. Again."


Maybe it's the pandemic.  Maybe it's just me.  But prayer's getting real for me these days.  Not as a way to manipulate the cosmos, or prove my devotion to God.  But as a practice that grounds me in this place.  And as a practice that humbles me and connects me and finds me in a wider community of beings and friends.  This particular prayer -- which is a Maori Prayer from the South Pacific -- has become especially potent, and I say it often.

 It's a revisioning (or simply, an interpretation) of the Lord's Prayer.  And it moves me.  I find myself walking with Jesus.  I sense a cloud of witnesses all around me.  And I'm grateful for the amazing gifts and commitments of those who are living in compassion, faith and risk every day now.
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  1. David Grishaw-JonesMarch 30, 2020 at 7:19 PM

    I'm provoked a bit by this notion of the Commonwealth of Peace and Freedom. I'm so used to praying "Thy Kingdom Come." It soothes me. But maybe this commonwealth-stuff is what Jesus was really after: a human community in which first are last, last are first, and all are fed!

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