#46865
Sheelah
Moderator

Yes, this is truly the most complete prayer is it not? As James tells us “As we read the Our Father, imagine yourself as highly malleable, being stretched between two force?fields, two patterns of desire. The Our Father is inducting you into a pattern of desire which will enable you to inhabit the “being stretched” which is how the desire of the Other other brings us into being.” I had always had difficulty with the “and lead us not into temptation” as if God would do such a thing, but I suspect that this is the paucity of the English language and needs a better translation, although James words ” Evil is not a thing in itself, it is only known in its being left behind, never to be given oxygen by being dignified with a concentrated gaze” really explains it for me.