2009 06 21

Brothers and Sisters,

The Sunday Morning Church of ATTENTION

Our Father who Art in Heaven

Hallowed be thy Name

           Today is a holiday honoring Fathers. Me, my son, son-in-law, all remarkable men who have sired a child. Men worthy of Attention.

           It is interesting to put Fathers and Heaven in the same sentence. Placed into such a popular and powerful prayer. As a Father I find it comforting.

           Does a Father have a special Attention he bestows on his offspring?

           This is a mysterious form of Attention.

           Perhaps the Sages who scripted the Lord’s Prayer placed Fathers in Heaven because they could not ‘name’ the specifics of a Fathers Attention.

           Where a mother gestates for 9 months, cares and nourishes for longer, a Father may only be a one night stand or moment of ejaculation.

           A Fathers Attention is on a sliding scale. Amounts of nourishment, protection, teaching, all the ways of wisdom, humor, caring, and the tones of tool wielding, game playing, relationship building, the touches of THE MAN of our life attending to us.

           How and where is/was your Father’s Attention?

           There is much that can be biological, genetically attributed to Father, but most of his Attention came to us by his creations. How he chooses to be. How he chooses to reside in Heaven and act as Lord and earn the Hallowed stature. To create the Kingdom Come. To Empower the child to have Thy Will Be Done as legacy. 

           The Lords Prayer is so simple it can be ascribed onto a penny for only fifty cents, repeated daily to intone forgiveness, add sustenance, to honor, create will, and act as this life is the Heaven.

Namaste

gary