Our Father, which art
in heaven
Good day
Big Guy in the sky :).
Hallowed by thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Well then,
here we are and it's good to be here - to be so near You. I like looking up at
the blue sky and know that Thou art there. Get it? You're up there making
beautiful art. I read that we've managed to create multiverses in a lab the
other day. This is probably old news to You, what with having created
multiverses from the get go - Big Bang and all that. I imagine that You're
proud though, Your creatures take after You. We live to create, or as Professor
Tolkien more aptly put it, sub-create. If You've kept up with the news You know
it's all doom and gloom down here - all rape and murder. That's what we do when
we're not sub-creating. People are saying it's the end of days. I say it's the
gentle and kind invasion of Your kingdom. It's like the bit in Final Crisis
where non-existence invades existence - only it's gentle and kind. We're not
being gentle and kind about it though. We're quite brutal in reaction to gentle
and kind things. Do me a huge favour, would Ya? Carry Anene, Reeva and every
single human being (everyone who was a potential generator of goodness beyond
measure) who tragically passed away lately gently into your bosom. Send the
Lady on the Grey to bear them away on her steed:
'He is gentle enough to bear the mightiest of
you away on his broad back, and strong enough for the smallest of you' - Neil Gaiman.
Also,
please forgive the folk who took their lives, even... Or rather, especially
when we can't.
Thy will be done in
earth,
As it is in heaven
This is the
bit about Your will and our free will that I don't understand so well. I get
the end bit where evil will find that it has been serving You all along. What I
don't get is what's happening in between - it gets murky there. Our will is
pretty much reigning in the earth sphere right now. I'm not too sure what how
the governance is top-side but down here it's Jacob Zuma.
Give us this day our
daily bread.
And forgives us our
trespasses,
As we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into
temptation,
But deliver us from
evil.
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Padre Nostro
Padre nostro che sei nei cieli,
sia santificato il tuo Nome,
venga il tuo Regno,
sia fatta la tua Volontà
come in cielo così in terra.
Dacci oggi il nostro pane quotidiano,
e rimetti a noi i nostri debiti
come noi li rimettiamo ai nostri debitori,
e non ci indurre in tentazione,
ma liberaci dal Male.
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At this
point the whole world needs a hug. I'm not sure about the rest of the
multiverse but give them a hug too. There's a lot of pain and suffering doing
the rounds. People are in great need of daily bread, daily hugs and just good
ol' fashioned daily love. Hook us up, ol' G. We need a whole new level of
strongs for the forgiving some trespasses bit. Folks is nasty out there lately
and John Legend's approach seems to be the most attractive: "Now I’m not afraid to do the Lord's
work, You say vengeance is his but I'm'ma do it first." It's a bit of
a steep learning curve as You can see. I can't speak for the rest of humanity
on this one but I need my trespasses forgiven. At the rate I'm going I'm a
burglar! Temptation is pretty much everywhere and hard to avoid. You've seen
the second The Lord of the Rings movie, right? There's the scene where Gollum's
leading Frodo and Sam through the Dead Marshes and tells them not to look at
the dead faces in the water. That's pretty much the first thing Frodo does!
They aren't even cute hobbit girls in revealing dresses, just creepy, dead
faces and Frodo's tempted to look. Temptation is rough. Deliverance from evil
is straight up necessary though, hey. We need every form of escape we can get
from evil's gaping maw.
That's it
for now, Big Guy. Later times.
For thine is the
kingdom,
The power, and the
glory,
For ever and ever
Amen.
