The Blessings of Earthiness: The Next Step
(a meditation on Psalms 23)
Hawvlan lachma d'sunqanan yaomana
(KJV version: Give us this day our daily bread)
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight:
subsistence for the call of
growing life.
Give us the food we need to grow
through each new day,
through each illumination of life's needs.
Let the measure of our need be earthiness:
give all things simple, verdant,
passionate.
Produce in us, for us, the possible:
each only-human step toward home
lit up.
Help us fulfill what lies within
the circle of our lives: each day we ask
no more, no less.
Animate the earth within us: we then
feel the Wisdom underneath
supporting all.
Generate through us the bread of life:
we hold only what is asked to feed
the next mouth.
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.
~ Neil Douglas-Klotz ~
(Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus)
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