Conservative Friend

Our Father in Heaven;

ours and everyone's, for You make Your sun rise, and Your rain fall on everyone; You give light to everyone who comes into the world;

Hallowed be Your name;

that Your righteousness, and not wickedness, be done in Your name.

Your Kingdom come;

the Kingdom which is among us now, if we will only acknowledge it,

the Kingdom with a New Covenant, where Your law is in our minds and in our hearts,

where You have given Light to those in darkness and guided our feet into the way of peace;

Your will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven;

that we do justice, and love mercy; that we love You with all our heart and soul and mind and strength, and our neighbor, even our enemy; that we love not in word or tongue but in deed and in Truth, here, now, on Earth as it has always been with You in Paradise.

Give us this day our daily bread,

our spiritual bread, Lord, but also bread to sustain us that we may do Your will; and that we do not hoard our bread but feed the hungry, for this is also Your will; and that with all that You give us, that  we give drink to the thirsty, take in the stranger, clothe the naked, and care for the sick.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;

for as Your Son came to cancel our debt, so we also are called upon to cancel debt; for He came to preach, and not only to preach but to fulfill the acceptable year of the Lord, the Jubilee; that we live in a perpetual Jubilee, a perpetual deliverance from captivity, a perpetual liberation of the oppressed, an Earthly Kingdom of God, where You scatter the proud, put down the mighty, exalt the lowly, and fill the hungry.     

And lead us not into temptation,

for Blessed is the one who endures temptation, who is not drawn away by his own desires from which come wars and fights;

But deliver us from evil,

from passions, greed, wrath, and from carnal weapons, that we may overcome evil with good.

For Yours is the Kingdom

which Christ has established among us,

and the Power,

of the Gospel, and of Truth,

and the Glory

which is our hope to share in,

Forever. Amen.

Those are beautiful words Friend Ken.