[Oe List ...] pater noster

[Isobel Bishop]

Thankyou Ken 

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> On 28 Sep 2017, at 1:14 am, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> I am sorry to say that even though I appreciate your secular pater noster,
> I am still concerned with asking the cosmos for forgiveness for all the times I have stepped heavily on the earth.  It seems that admitting our culpability is essential to moving forward.  I could go on and on.  I am not trying to say that guilt is necessary, but it seems like co-creation requires a trust based in honesty.  Margaret
> From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ken Fisher via OE
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:24 AM
> To: George Holcombe; Order Ecumenical Community
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] conversation on white trash racism
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> Friends,
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> Both through recent experiences and 'our daily Rohr', I’d like to share with you my wording of a current secular ‘pater noster'.
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> Compassionate cosmos...
> In which we live,
> and with whom we find our meaning,
> Grace us with your presence.
> Support our freedom to be love as we are loved.
> Trusting in your never-ending hospitality,
> So be it.
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> And, as I have already shared, I love this poem by Hafiz.
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> The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.
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> Look what happens with a love like that.
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> It lights the whole sky.
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> Feeling the warmth of the sun (the immediate sustainer of our habitat) and wanting to ‘be sun too’,
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> Ken
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