The original "Our Father"

Many people struggle with the “Our Father” prayer as it reminds them of religious abuse they have experienced. When Jesus (Yeshua) taught this prayer to his disciples, he spoke in Aramaic. Aramaic is a feminine language with multiple possible interpretations which cannot be conveyed in the translations. Think of the Bible as the google translate of what Yeshua actually said!

One interpretation of the Our Father in Aramaic goes like this:

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light
Focus your light within us - make it useful - as the rays of a beacon show the way
Create your reign of unity now - through our fiery hearts and willing hands
Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight, subsistence for the call of growing life
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us
as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt
Don’t let us enter forgetfulness
But free us from unripeness.

The book “Prayer of the Cosmos” has many other beautiful possible translations.

The Druid Prayer can be used as an alternative to the “Our Father”

O Goddess grant us thy protection

And in protection, strength

In strength, understanding

In understanding, knowledge

In knowledge, the knowledge of justice

In the knowledge of justice, the love of it

In the love of it, the love of all existences

And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness