Prayer of Jesus

O Birther of the Cosmos,

focus your light within us,

make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now.

Your one desire then acts with ours,

as in all light,

so in all forms.

Grant us what we need each day in bread and insight:

loose the cords of mistakes binding us,

As we release the strands we hold of other’s guilt.

Don’t let surface things delude us,

but free us from what holds us back.

From you is born all ruling will,

the power and the life to do,

the song that beautifies all,

from age to age it renews,

I affirm this with my whole being.

(as translated from the Aramaic by Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz )

Eternal Spirit,

Love maker, Pain bearer, Life giver,

source of all that is and that shall be,

Father and Mother of us all,

Loving God in whom is heaven

The hallowing of your name

echo through the universe!

The way of your justice be followed

by the people of the world!

Your heavenly will be done

by all created beings!

Your commonwealth of peace sustain

our hope and come on earth!

With the bread that we need for today, feed us.

In the hurts we absorb

from one another, forgive us.

From the trials too great to endure, spare us.

From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,

now and forever. Amen.

(Jim Cotter)

My own simple offering:

Our Father of love in heaven,

hallowed be your name of love.

Your kingdom of love come.

Your will of love be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread of love.

Forgive us for our failure to love,

as we forgive those who have failed to love us.

Lead us not into the temptation of selfish love

But deliver us from the evil that is anti-love

For yours is the kingdom of love

the power of love

and the glory of love

For ever and ever

Amen

(Roslyn Wright – 2000)