"Peaceable Kingdom", Edward Hicks (American Quaker), 1833
Isaiah 65:17-26. 17 For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating, for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy and its people as a delight. 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it or the cry of distress. 20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old person who does not live out a lifetime, for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed. 21 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat, for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be offspring blessed by the LORD-- and their descendants as well. 24 Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but the serpent--its food shall be dust! 26 They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.
Voice 1 Our Father who art in Heaven
Voice 2 Holy One beyond all names, Eternal Wellspring,
Voice 3 O Great Spirit, our Father from above,
Voice 1 Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come
Voice 2 May love rise again in us today
Voice 3 we honor your name as sacred and holy.
Voice 1 thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Voice 2 with food for every table, shelter for every person,
Voice 3 Bring your good road to us, where the beauty of your ways in the spirit-world
above is reflected in the earth below.
Voice 1 Give us this day our daily bread
Voice 2 and reverence for every living being.
Voice 3 Provide for us day by day--the elk, the buffalo, and the salmon.
The corn, the squash, and the wild rice. All the things we need for each day.
Voice 1 Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us
Voice 2 Forgive us our failings in love, and free us from all falseness,
Voice 3 Release us from the things we have done wrong, in the same way we release
others for the things done wrong to us.
Voice 1 and Lead us not into temptation,
Voice 2 that the light of our souls may shine
Voice 3 Guide us away from the things that tempt us to stray from your good road
Voice 1 but deliver us from evil
Voice 2 and the strength of our spirits endure for earth and all its people
Voice 3 and set us free from the evil one and his worthless ways.
Voice 1 For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever
Voice 2 this day, tonight, and forever.
Voice 1 Amen!
Voice 2 Yes, I commit!
Voice 3 Aho! May it be so!
Matthew 6: 9-13 , (from "Celtic Benediction," by John Phillip Newell) First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.
Closing Prayer
O God, in Christ you give us hope
for a new heaven and a new earth.
Grant us wisdom to interpret the signs of our times,courage to stand in the time of trial,
and faith to witness to your truth and love. Amen.
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