Peace Prayers

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Our Birth in Unity

 

(King James Version: Our Father which art in heaven)

 

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos,

you create all that moves

in light.

 

O Thou! The Breathing Life of all,

Creator of the Shimmering Sound that

touches us

 

Respiration of all worlds,

we hear you breathing-in and out-

in silence.

 

Source of Sound: in the roar and the whisper,

in the breeze and the whirlwind, we

hear your Name.

 

Radiant One: You shine within us,

outside us-even darkness shines-when

we remember.

 

Name of names, our small identity

unravels in you, you give it back as

a lesson.

 

Wordless Action, Silent Potency-

where ears and eyes awaken, there

heaven comes.

 

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos!

 

~~~ Neil Douglas-Klotz

Page 12, Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the

Aramaic Words of Jesus,

Harper San Francisco

(Many of the prayers are this book are inspired by the

Lord’s Prayer.)

 

 

Clearing Space for the Name to Live

 

(King James Version: Hallowed be thy name)

 

Focus your light within us-make it useful:

as the rays of a beacon

show the way.

 

Help us breathe one holy breath

feeling only you-this creates a shrine

inside, in wholeness.

 

Help us to let go, clear the space inside

of busy forgetfulness: so the

Name comes to live.

 

Your name, your sound can move us

if we tune our hearts as instruments

for its tone.

 

Hear the one Sound that created all others,

in this way the Name is hallowed

in silence.

 

In Peace the Name resides:

a “room of one’s own,” a holy of holies

open, giving light, to all.

 

We all look elsewhere for this light-

it draws us out of ourselves-but the Name

always live within.

 

Focus your light within us-make it useful!

 

~~~ Neil Douglas-Klotz

Page 16, Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the

Aramaic Words of Jesus, Harper San Francisco

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The Creative Fire

 

(KJV version: Thy Kingdom come)

 

Create your reign of unity now-

through our fiery hearts

and willing hands.

 

Let your counsel rule our lives,

clearing our intention

for co-creation.

 

Unite our “I can” to yours, so that

we walk as kings and queens

with every creature.

 

Desire with and through us

the rule of universal fruitfulness

onto the earth.

 

Your rule springs into existence

as our arms reach out to

embrace all creation.

 

Come into the bedroom of our hearts,

prepare us for the marriage of

power and beauty.

 

From this divine union, let us birth

new images for a new world

of peace.

 

Create your reign of unity now!

 

~~~ Neil Douglas-Klotz

Page 19, Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the

Aramaic Words of Jesus, Harper San Francisco

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The Lord’s Prayer

 

Our Father which art in heaven

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from

evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the

glory,

forever.

 

Amen.

 

(Matthew 6:9-13, King James English Translation)