Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Awesome is your Name

There is a lot of dogmatic ritual contained in church services. People pray the Lord's Prayer and it sounds to me like so much mumbling taking place in unison.

SO? You guessed it. I translated the Lord's Prayer to embrace my understanding and beliefs by simplifying it into words that contain the essence of what it says to me. Then I mumble along with everybody else and nobody notes that I have changed a few words here and there. Everybody is happy, the congregation with their familiar ritualistic chant and me with words, resonating with my core beliefs.

This is the prayer I say to myself.

God of our fathers, wherever you be,
Awesome is your name.
May your kingdom come, your will be done
On earth as it is in your world.
Gives us today our daily bread
And forgive us our mistakes
As we forgive those who err against us.
Grant our will dominion over temptation,
And deliver us from our sins.
For yours is the wonder, the power and the glory
Now and forever.
Amen

I believe in "Evolution" but only to the extent that it allows an organism to gradually change over extended periods of time. However, I don't believe that we evolved ourselves into existence. Something out there created the specifications and plans for all the plants, animals and insects that inhabit this earth. Every living thing contains several telephone books worth of code that has to be produced in perfect harmony. Evolution is the result of a module in that compendium of chemical building blocks that allows for some adaptive changes on the margin however, there is no way the genetic codes to life were written by a bunch of monkeys banging on some sort of eternal statistical typewriter.

Further I believe in a Cosmic Equilibrium that not only balances nature but insures that good and evil exist in the same proportions.

I could say more, but who really cares, or needs to, about the conclusions I've reached during the course of a lifetime?