Prayer For Today
‘LET us pray. Only, what shall we pray for?
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Pastor Zephania Kameeta, a former vice president of Namibias Evangelical Lutheran Church, thinks he knows. And his prayers for our time have been included in a book called Pocket Prayers for Justice and Peace.
The tome, compiled by the charity Christian Aid and published by Church House Publishing, the Church of Englands publishing arm, and seen by the Telegraph, has Kameeta in Westlife mode, covering traditional prayers in his own style.
A spokesman for the publishing group tells the paper that its a book of prayers we hope will help people think afresh about some of the issues surrounding debt in the developing world and the issues of fair trade.
So instead of Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, the 23rd Psalm now reads: Even if a full-scale violent confrontation breaks out I will not be afraid, Lord.
And so it goes for the Lords Prayer, which now begins: Our father who is in us here on earth, holy is your name in the hungry who share their bread and their song.
The Independent tells us that it also includes the line that God is giving us our daily bread when we manage to get back our lands or to get a fairer wage.
Although, since bread is not everyones cup of tea, as it were, we argue that it can be substituted by the more modern breadsticks,
wafers or, at a push, Slim Fast shakes.
Amen.’
Posted: 2nd, June 2004 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
