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GodGod isThe beginning before the beginning The end of all endings The life of all living things The breath of all human beings God is the before and the after The centre and the consummation The meaning The story The destination and the source This is the vitality of God The heart and the soul and the fate of everything that is Without God there is no start no direction nothing that is true With God I live and love and move and breathe creating with hands and words and feet a human enterprise small, delicate and vulnerable but held between its genesis and consummation in the presence of the eternal love. God-MotherIf God is not our motherhow can we be born again? How can we be 'born of the Spirit' if we do not enter into the womb of the Spirit if we do not emerge, screaming, out of our God-mother into the dangerous world? And if we do not feed at the breast of our God-mother how are we to be nurtured? Are we to drink some artificial milk concocted by men? Or are we to slurp greedily at the divine breast huge and brimming with the spiritual milk: growing healthy and strong into the men and women we were born to be? PaternosterOur Father, unlimited by human conceptsOur Mother, the power beyond human thought Our Creator, beyond yet always present to your children We respect you for you are the energising presence that inhabits all life We desire that your love and goodness be made known to all humanity, that the powers of evil be overthrown and that the new creation be revealed here in the midst of us Help us every day so that we might have the food, shelter and human companionship we need We acknowledge our failings, our greed, our self-righteousness; as we receive your generous forgiveness may we be generous to those who annoy or mistreat us God of all life we need your protection. We fail often and the world can be a frightening place. Guard us, we pray, in your expansive love. |