The Power and the Glory

A Paraphrase

My God, who is beyond what I can see or know,

to try to name you would be folly.

What comes from you will be what it will be

here, and in the age to come.

Please help me find my basic needs today,

and forgive me what I owe,

as I forgive those who owe me.

And please let me not seek frivolous things,

but save me from the torture of this ceaseless desire.

For this world is yours, as is the world to come —

you alone control all things and are worthy of worship.

Amen.