The Lord's Prayer

          At this Christian men's group i've been attending, some of them want me to accept the mercy of God and become one of the elect.  i told one guy, "Get behind me, Satan."  Because i think it would go to my head and my heart.  At any rate, i've been tempted to share with whatever small group i sit with about how i say an Our Father,
so i'll just share it with the whole wide world haha:

Our Father (i like to think "how pretentious of me, to claim to be a son of God like that"), which art in heaven (i like to think "who might be heaven [merely the Spirit of love]"),
Hallowed be Thy Name (i often think of my closest encounter with Holy [see here]) Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven (this is by far the longest passage in how Jesus told us to pray, and i like to think "surely Your Will is that no child starve to death today and what am i doing about it".);
Give us this day our daily bread (i almost always think of the proverb which goes "open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread"; also maybe note that this could be His primary command to us, to give daily bread to all and then let them eat meat they earn and actually all this will be moot should His Kingdom come, good news for the two billion people surviving abject poverty),
Forgive us our trespasses [better than] we forgive those who trespass against us (second longest passage, and it puts a condition on the forgiveness of our sins which i generally request an excuse for), and lead us not into temptation nor subject us to the final test (the New American Bible [NAB] is the Catholic translation and both places Jesus says "lead us not into temptation" it translates "do not subject us to the final test"), but deliver us from evil (i like to think "please Lord"), for Thine is the Kindom, the power, and the glory now and forever (though i have been saying the Catholic roasary almost daily for maybe a year or so and i think the Catholics mostly don't add this, i do because i think it appropriate and for a little more penance haha).
Amen

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    And though no one has asked, i'm responding to the interest (i'm afraid it's mostly critical) by adding how i say a Hail Mary:  i am one voice in myriads and myriads of voices reciting the familiar refrain; my focus is often on trying to blend my slow Mississippi drawl with the rythm of the angels in heaven.  (And since this might to be the first shift angels draw in eternity, i'm thinking maybe i can get an excuse.)

 Wanted to mention how mind-blowing it is to me to apply the "attention is energy" rule to Mary's experience with God's Own Angel__i mean, how many times has the Hail Mary been said?  How many people have put their attention, their energy toward this one young teenager?  And how many clues do we have in the Bible that Mary heard every word of the Hail Mary?                          

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus;

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.  Amen                                                                    

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