GOD
Our Father and Mother in Heaven
and Earth!
May your name be honoured
by every person and in everything !
May your kingdom come
through the control of environmental pollutiion,
rather that through more sophisticated factories and faster cars,
through the widow's mite rather that the millionaire's might;
through the sprouting seed rather than the exploding atom.
Your will be done
in our waters so that fish can swim safely in them;
in our atmosphere so that we can breathe it freely,
in our buildings, so that children can play in them,
and the aged find a play to live
Give us today the courage and the imagination to search for a new way of life
Give bread to the hungry
and to those who have bread hunger for the bread of life.
Forgive us when our love is calculating and our concern
mechanical;
when we enjoy the fruits of the earth
but do not care for the sweat that watered it;
nor for the soil in which it grew.
Forgive us
so that we learn to forgive ourselves and those around us
And do not allow us to fail in the test,
by collaborating with the strong against the weak.
But save us from the evil one at work
in an industry that thrives on war,
in gurus who offer instant salvation
and in a church made up only of docile sheep. AMEN
