Here is a unique re-interpretation of the Lord’s
Prayer by George Ella Lyon. It was posted on Progressive Church Planting.
Kitchen Mother
(inspired by Matthew 6: 9-13, Luke 11: 2-4)
Our
Mother Who Art in the kitchen
cooking
us up
hallowed
may we see
all that
is Your kingdom here
delivered into our hands
Your will
in children
and trees
leaping out on earth
as if it
were Heaven.
Give us
this day
bread we
could feed the world
and
snatch us bald-headed
if we try
to swallow it all.
Don't
forgive us
till we
learn it is all for giving.
That
salve you've got in a pot
on the
back of the stove
only
heals when everybody has some.
And heed
us not
if we
believe You look like us
and love
us best
and gave
us the True Truth
with a
license to kill Others
writ
inside.
Deliver
us from this evil.
for it is
Yours, this kitchen we call Universe
where you
stir up our favorite treat,
the Milky
Way,
folding
deep into sweet
our
little sphere
with its
powerful glory
of
rainforests and oceans and mountains in feather-boa mist
forever
(if we
don't blow it up)
and ever
(if we
don't tear it down)
Amen
(Ah
women, ah children
Ah reckon
She's about fed up.
We better
make room at the table
for
everybody
before
She yells - OUT!
and turns
our table over,
before
She calls it off
this
banquet we've been hoarding
this
paradise
we aim to
save
with bombs.)
~ Written by George Ella Lyon, and posted on Progressive Church Planting.
http://progressivechurchplanting.blogspot.ca/2012/07/lords-prayer-workshop-texts.html
