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Tom Wood

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Father we beseech You, always asking

We call out Your name, continually searching

We are on a journey, the river of this lifetime

Like the voyagers of old

Lost but continuing to explore

Fixated on the journey

Paddling the winding endless river

Slogging over the portages

Looking for the end time

The compass of this journey is Your name

We live by Your name, but in vain

We cannot grasp the meaning of Your name

We twist and contort Your name like a tornado spinning and sweeping across a vast prairie mesa

Creating the dust bowl of this lifetime, littered with the broken tumble weeds of our lives

We whom, You have created and so lovingly nurtured

Blessed, oh how You have blessed us

We cannot live by the good graces of Your name alone

We must kill in Your name

We must enslave in Your name

We must maim in Your name

We must do all manner of evil in Your name

We build churches in Your name

Grand edifices to be sure

Opulent like the palaces of old

Temples to some

But it is not the same

For it is once again in vain

Nothing begets nothing

Edifices built in your name

Money changers of the edifices be cast out

Power mongers of the edifices be cast out

Those who distort others like twisted metal, be cast out

They and we live

Distorting Your name

Enslaving others, by invocation of Your name

We cannot grasp the essence of Your name

For it eludes us, like the willowy wisps of a campfires smoke

Drifting beyond our grasp

Fading into the nothingness of the invisible air

Soon forgotten as fragile memories dim

We beseech You Father

Teach us once again

The meaning of Your Hallowed name