The Blessings of Earthiness:
The Next Step
Hawvlan lachma
d'sunqanan yaomana
(KJV version: Give us
this day our daily bread)
Grant what we need each day
in bread and insight:
subsistence for the call of
growing life.
subsistence for the call of
growing life.
Give us the food we need to
grow
through each new day,
through each illumination of life's needs.
through each new day,
through each illumination of life's needs.
Let the measure of our need
be earthiness:
give all things simple, verdant,
passionate.
give all things simple, verdant,
passionate.
Produce in us, for us, the
possible:
each only-human step toward home
lit up.
each only-human step toward home
lit up.
Help us fulfill what lies
within
the circle of our lives: each day we ask
no more, no less.
the circle of our lives: each day we ask
no more, no less.
Animate the earth within us:
we then
feel the Wisdom underneath
supporting all.
feel the Wisdom underneath
supporting all.
Generate through us the
bread of life:
we hold only what is asked to feed
the next mouth.
we hold only what is asked to feed
the next mouth.
Grant what we need each day
in bread and insight.
~ Neil Douglas-Klotz
~
(Prayers of the Cosmos:
Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus)
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