Our Mother who art the Earth
nurturing is they name.
Thy web of life be woven
Thy way be found within
as it is all about
Thank you this day
for our daily bread
– and sweat
And forgive us our misuse of you
as we forgive those who misuse us
And lead us not into exploitation
but deliver us from lording it over you
and over each other
and over all your creatures
For thine are the waters of life
and the hills, valleys and plains of home
and our breeding, seeding, feeding ground
now
and for as close to forever
as we’ll ever get. Ah! Woman
Bill Trampleasure’s reflections following Friar Francis Baur’s sermon on “The Lord’s Prayer: The Vision of Jesus” First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, California March 15, 1987.