I came across this the other day and wanted to see what kind of response it got. I’ll save my comments for later. For now, how about this rendition of the Lord’s Prayer:
Our Mother who is within us
we celebrate your many names.
Your wisdom come.
Your will be done,
unfolding from the depths within us.
Each day you give us all that we need.
You remind us of our limits
and we let go.
You support us in our power
and we act with courage.
For you are the dwelling place within us
the empowerment around us
and the celebration among us
now and for ever. Amen.
What do you think?
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This seems to be more a mockery of the Lord’s prayer than a rendition.
There seems to be a lot of digging within oneself to find God in this ‘prayer’. The ‘model’ prayer is a call to an external God, not an internal one.
Thats my response.
Given the recent news about the “Conservative Bible,” rewriting the bits that have a liberal bias, I am equally critical of liberal rewrites. This is not a rewritten Lord’s Prayer; this is a different prayer. It’s a prayer that is not at all to my personal taste, though certainly no one is in a position to say “You may not say this prayer.” Where it crosses the line for me is when it purports to be “a rendition of the Lord’s Prayer” while saying almost the exact opposite of the words as recorded in the Gospels and used in tradition.
Honestly, this kind of thing embarrasses me.
This isn’t the Lord’s prayer. It has the same rhythm, that’s about it…