The power of the spoken word
I've long struggled with the tongue of my current incarnation 'English'. So many times I feel my soul's expression becoming tangled with the limitations of the spoken word. My inner knowing has always drawn me to something far beyond words could ever describe. With a natural affinity for 'de-coding' things, I've felt drawn to certain languages over the years, especially ancient ones...

Upon hearing them, it is as if they are encoded with the secrets of the universe and the space between the words is filled with a divine infusion of light. They seem to be a much more literal expression of my soul. Aramaic is one such language.

I have always been fascinated with the Aramaic version of the 'Lord's Prayer'. Aramaic was the native tongue of Jesus. The original version seems a world apart from the 'traditionally' translated version, which seems so widely removed from the original expression!

Here is the most beautiful translation I know of (although bear in mind as with all things expressed - it is only a translation):

THE ARAMAIC PRAYER OF JESUS ('The Lord's Prayer')
(as translated from Aramaic by Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz of the Sufi Order of the West)
O, Birther of the Cosmos, focus your light within us -- make it useful
Create your reign of unity now
Your one desire then acts with ours,
As in all light,
So in all forms,
Grant us what we need each day in bread and insight:
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
As we release the strands we hold of other's guilt.
Don't let surface things delude us,
But free us from what holds us back.
From you is born all ruling will,
The power and the life to do,
The song that beautifies all,
From age to age it renews.
I affirm this with my whole being.

Enjoy this beautiful video... It is one of the most gentle versions and yet soul stirring songs of the Prayer of Jesus that I have found: