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Often you come across familiar prayers in a different style of language which can shock you, or make you see something completely differently. Here are some versions of the Lord’s Prayer.  (Forgive me if I have not always cited the reference accurately.)

O Great Spirit,
You are our Shepherd Chief in the most high place.
Whose home is everywhere,
even beyond the stars and moon.
Whatever you want done, let it, also,
be done everywhere.
Give us your gift of bread day by day.
Forgive us our wrongs
as we forgive those who wrong us.
Take us away from wrongdoings.
Free us from all evil.
For everything belongs to you.
Let your power and glory shine forever.
Amen.

Hattie C Enos

O most compassionate Life-giver,
may we honour and praise you;
may we work with you to establish your
new order of justice, peace and love.
Give us what we need for growth,
and help us, through forgiving others, to accept forgiveness.
Strengthen us in the time of testing,
that we may resist all evil,
for all the tenderness, strength and love are yours,
now and forever. Amen

Unknown

Our Father and Mother who art in Perfection
we love you so much that even your Name is holy to us.
They community come,
Thy yearning be done,
among all of us here as well as in heaven.
Give us this day just what we need.
And forgive us our trespasses –
but only as much as we forgive those
who trespass against our own boundaries.
Save us from this time of trial,
and deliver us from evil.
For the community, the power,
and the glory are yours –
now and forever. Amen.

Rev Dan Geslin

Holy One, our only Home,
hallowed by your name.
May your day dawn,
your will be done,
here, as in heaven.
Feed us today, and forgive us
as we forgive each other.
Do not forsake us at the test,
but deliver us from evil.
For the glory, the power,
and the mercy are yours,
now and forever. Amen.

Mother Thunder Mission

O Birther!  Father-Mother 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 what we need each day in bread and insight.
Loose the cords of mistake binding us,
as we release the strands we hold of others’ 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.
Truly-power to these statements –
may they be the ground from which
all my actions grow. Amen.

Neil Douglas-Klotz