Good Monday Morning to this 2nd Week of 2025
Chapter 1
Dr. Douglas-Klotz writes; I experienced a physical sensation of calming love from the Aramaic words, when i applied the ancient practice of Jesus’s day. “You breathe with, you say the words of the teacher or the prophet in their language and you come into rhythm with the words as a living experience. Here a few selections from from The Lord’s Prayer Bible’s King James V version.
Our Father who art in heaven:
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light.
Hallowed be thy name
Focus your light within us — make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way.
Thy kingdom come
Unite our “I can” to yours, so that we walk as kings and queens with every creature.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Create in me a divine cooperation — from many selves, one voice, one action.
Give us this day our daily bread
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors
Forgive our hidden past, the secret shames, as we consistently forgive what others hide.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil
Deceived neither by the outer nor the inner — free us to walk your path with joy.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
From you is born all ruling will, the power and life to do, the song that beautifies all from age to age it renews. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer is so familiar I tend to take for granted. In Aramaic, it has a powerful resonance weighted toward infinite love and possibilities, and gives us a perspective of a new way.
Wishing a blessed start to this new week and year!
Philemon