The Lord's Prayer: Great Goddess Version

Our Mother who art the Earth

Nourishing are thy ways

Thy web of life be woven

Thy ways be found within

As it is all around.

Thank you this day for our bread and sweat

And forgive us our misuse of you

As we forgive others their misuse of us

And lead us not into exploitation

But deliver us from lording it over you

And over each other and over fellow creatures.

For thine are the waters of life

The feeding, breeding, seeding ground

For now and for as close to forever

As we shall ever come.

Blessed be!

--Z. Budapest, Dianic Witch

Quite a different emphasis when the Divine Feminine is the subject of the prayer, eh? I found this version on Z. Budapest's website and I like it very much. The themes of rulership and "power over" have been replaced by ones of nurturance, respect and equality. There's even a refreshing humility in her line "for as close to forever as we shall ever come."