Posts Tagged "prayer"
Pray for Peace
Reading at Koloa practice 12/15/2011 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...
Read MoreThe Lord’s Prayer; a Direct Translation
A 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 Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration! Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide. Fill us with your creativity so that we...
Read MoreOn Storytelling
Reading at Anara Yoga Practice 10/10/2011 There is this old Celtic thing, that there is very little difference between a song and a poem, between a poem and a story, between a story and a prayer, so that anytime someone is singing a song,or telling a story or reading poetry to a child, they are also inviting the child into a prayer. There’s never a need to talk down to the child at all,...
Read MoreThe Summer Day
Reading at Waimea practice 7/26/11 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...
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...
Read MoreShort Prayer of Thanks
Reading from Kalaheo practice 07/27/09 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...
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