{"id":600,"date":"2007-06-21T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/21\/21-june-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T06:05:56","slug":"21-june-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"21 June 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A big week for Oliver, who has learned to ride his bicycle. He showed real determination and independence, and it was great to see his delight when he managed it – on a video sent by David. Today I was able to see him riding down the street “live”: David held a webcam out of the window, and Oliver went up and down two or three times, with Vicky watching from a distance. The picture here goes back a couple of weeks, when he was still getting a helping hand in the garden from Nana (but always wanting to do it on his own). This afternoon he goes with his mother to his new school for a familiarisation visit.<\/p>\n

Dot missed this morning’s ride because she was inspecting a school at Wreningham. On Tuesday she was out all day taking Aunt E to visit Aunt J at North Walsham. Rather wish I’d gone, but I did speak to both of them: E to find out why Dot was so late back, and J later to thank her for keeping a paper for me and to mention that I’d met a friend of hers (Yvonne K) at Welborne. Dot and E had lunch at Elderton Grange, and Dot was enthusing about it.<\/p>\n

The weather has improved a bit: it’s quite warm, but we still have occasional quite heavy showers. Other parts of the country are much worse hit: part of a rail track was washed away on the England\/Wales border.<\/p>\n

I spent most of yesterday working on a translation \/ interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer using the original Aramaic text and commentary on it. Aramaic is a much richer language than English, because its words (and their roots) have wider associations, usually based on verbs and vital human activities. I was trying to create a sort of prayer-poem, and I was reasonably pleased with it. It’s based on a book called Prayers of the Cosmos by Neil Douglas-Klotz. Obviously I don’t speak Aramaic, so I was heavily dependent on the translations and expansions given. Here it is (feel free to skip):<\/p>\n

You who created all things perfectly
\nout of what did not exist
\nYou who are mother and father to us
\nthe source of light and blessing
\nwhose breath flows through and transforms all it touches
\nrising and shining in space so that we can know you
\nthrough the song and vibration of the universe<\/p>\n

we plant a garden
\na holy shrine
\nwithin ourselves
\nseparate
\nletting go all that would distort or inhibit
\nyour focusing light,
\nyour wisdom, your peace<\/p>\n

Come like a fruitful arm
\na coiled spring
\nto release the potential of the earth
\nCome and fill your children
\nwith delight and faith to go forward
\nbearing the music and the spirit of your kingdom
\nin new directions<\/p>\n

As stars swirl together in harmony
\nyour heart\u2019s desire is an irresistible force
\nLet this be true of our hearts too
\nin word and vision
\nwithout break or discord
\nas we sigh together with the living earth
\nour home<\/p>\n

Take us forward step by step
\nGive us the food and understanding that we need
\nBreathe into us warmth, passion and creativity
\nProduce within us fruit and light
\nfulfilling what lies within the circle of our lives
\nan illumined measure of your abundance
\nnourishing each other<\/p>\n

Through forgiveness return us
\nto our uncorrupted state
\nclear and unburdened
\nfree of secret debt and hidden entanglements
\naccidental offences and frustrated hopes
\nEmbrace us with the purity of emptiness
\njust as we free and forgive others
\nconsistently
\nrepairing relationships<\/p>\n

Do not let us be diverted from the purpose of our lives
\nby surface temptations
\nor seduced by what is false
\nand illusory
\nDo not allow our minds to be lost in forgetfulness
\nlike flags waving aimlessly
\nin the wind
\nbut break the seal that binds us to what is immature, unripe
\nor inappropriate
\nFree us to walk your path with joy<\/p>\n

For your field is fertile and all-sufficient
\nYou determine all in your royal universe
\nYours is the force that produces and sustains
\nYours is the glorious song
\nlight and sound in balance
\nastonishing fire
\nfrom one age to another
\nin the cycle of time
\ngathering to gathering
\nmysterious
\ngrounded and true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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