Dave Sim's blogandmail #160 (February 18th, 2007)

In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the

Most Merciful:

There is no God but God

& Muhammad is His last messenger and seal

of prophets.

Almighty God

One God having One Name, One Face and One

Aspect which is God:

Glory to God in the Highest, Glory to God Most

High

God Who is the Most Gracious and the Most

Merciful.

Great is God and there is no other god but He.


Almighty God, I thank You for having revealed

Yourself to men.

I thank you for Your Presence in the world

and Your presence in my life

through Your Living Word, preserved for all

time within Your Sacred Scriptures;

Your Living Word which is like unto a shining

beacon, illuminating the path You have made

straight before me.


Almighty God, I thank You for the book of Genesis,

I thank You for the book of Exodus,

I thank You for the book of Leviticus,

I thank You for the book of Numbers,

I thank You for the book of Deuteronomy.

I thank You for these books and revelations which

You imparted to Your great prophet, Moshe

Peace be upon him.


I thank You for the book of Joshua,

I thank You for the book of Judges,

I thank You for the book of Samuel,

I thank You for the book of Kings,

I thank You for the book of Isaiah,

I thank You for the book of Jeremiah,

I thank You for the book of Ezekial,

I thank You for the book of Hosea,

I thank You for the book of Joel,

I thank You for the book of Amos,

I thank You for the book of Obadiah,

I thank You for the book of Jonah,

I thank You for the book of Micah,

I thank You for the book of Nahum,

I thank You for the book of Habakkuk,

I thank You for the book of Zephaniah,

I thank You for the book of Haggai,

I thank You for the book of Zechariah,

I thank You for the book of Malachi,


I thank You for the testimony and the records

of these prophets and messengers to

Your Chosen People,

Israel.

Peace be upon them.


I thank You for the Gospel according to Matthew,

I thank You for the Gospel according to Mark,

I thank You for the Gospel according to Luke,

I thank You for the Gospel according to John,

Peace be upon them


I thank you for the testimonies and the records

of Jesus, the Lamb of God,

Peace be upon him.


I thank You for the Acts of the Apostles,

I thank You for the Epistles of Paul,

I thank You for the testimony of the disciples,

I thank You for the Revelation of John.

Peace be upon them.


And I thank you for your glorious Koran.


Almighty God, after the instruction of Your

last messenger and seal of prophets,

Muhammad, peace be upon him,

who counselled that a man must submit himself

to the Will of God, wilfully and peacefully, I

renew my vow (this morning) that I do so: that

I submit myself to You and I submit myself to

Your Will. If it be Your Will, please grant that

I might be brought to the fulfillment whish

You intended for me from before my birth.


Glory to God in the highest, Glory to God

Most High, God who is the Most Gracious and

the Most Merciful, Great is God and there is

no other God but He. God Who created all

the worlds and all the heavens, God Who is

the only Source of salvation, God Who is the

only Hope of redemption, God Who is the only

good, God Who is my only sanctuary, God

Who is my only safe harbour from the storm.

Glory to God in the highest, glory to God most

high,

In excelsis Deo.


Almighty God, I thank you for allowing me to

be born in Canada in the last half of the

twentieth century: pampered, coddled,

insulated, sheltered and protected

from so much of the world's genuine hardship

& pain, misery & strife, famine & poverty,

disease & dispair, hunger & need, want &

dread, fear & violence, suppression &

oppression which are the yoke & the burden

under which so much of the world's

population yet labours.


Through these sufferings are the dust of this

earth -- from dust they came and to dust they

will return -- still I know that I have been

spared them, only by Your Grace and by Your

Mercy, and I am profoundly grateful to You

for that.


May God's will be done in the earth, and on

the earth, as it is in all the worlds and all the

heavens.


Glory to God in the highest, Glory to God

Most High, God who is the Most Gracious

and Most Merciful, Great is God and there is

no other god but He. God Who created all the

worlds and all the heavens, God Who is the

only Source of salvation, God Who is the

only Hope of redemption, God Who is the only

good, God Who is my only sanctuary, God

who is my only safe harbour from the storm.

Glory to God in the highest, glory to God

most high,

In excelsis Deo.


Almighty God, if I am worthy of forgiveness

in Your Eyes, I ask forgiveness of my many

sins, transgressions, iniquities and vanities

which are abomination before your Eternal

Laws, Morals and Ethics. If I am worthy

of forgiveness in Your Eyes, I ask forgiveness

for all my sins of commission and of

omission: those sins which I have

committed and which I commit, out of

wilfulness, out of ignorance,

out of spite, out of misery, out of

self-absobtion, out of self-pity,

out of self-destructiveness or out of

misundertsanding or

misconstruing Your Living Word.


Almighty God, I accept all consequences and

repercussions of my own choices, decisions,

self-imposed inadequacies, actions, deeds,

words and works. For God is the Sure Judge

over all the earth and all the worlds and all

the heavens, slow to anger, measured and

temperate in Your Judgements, sparing and

merciful in Your chastisements.


Glory to God in the highest, Glory to God

Most High, God who is the Most Gracious and

the Most Merciful, Great is God and there is

no other God but He. God Who created all

the worlds and all the heavens, God Who is

the only Source of salvation, God Who is the

only Hope of redemption, God Who is the only

good, God Who is my only sanctuary, God

Who is my only safe harbour from the storm.

Glory to God in the highest, glory to God most

high,

In excelsis Deo.


Almighty God, I commend into Your Care and

Your Custody, my soul, my mind and my

heart, knowing as I do so that free will is

God's greatest gift to man. And while I

entrust myself only to You and while I trust

only You, still I know that there are choices

and decisions which lie before me in my life

which are mine alone to make. If it be Your

Will, please grant that those choices and

decisions might be informed by the common

sense, the good judgement and what wisdom

You have seen fit to bestow upon me, by Your

Grace and by Your Mercy.


Glory to God in the highest, Glory to God

Most High, God who is the Most Gracious

and Most Merciful, Great is God and there is

no other god but He. God Who created all the

worlds and all the heavens, God Who is the

only source of salvation, God Who is the only

hope of redemption, God Who is the only

good, God Who is my only sanctuary, God

who is my only safe harbour from the storm.

Glory to God in the highest, glory to God

most high,

In excelsis Deo.


Almighty God, I also renew my vow (this

morning) that I will never again marry and I

will never again cohabit with a woman. I vow

further to exercise all caution , all restraint, all

common sense, all good judgement and what

wisdom You have seen fit to bestow upon me,

by Your Grace and by Your Mercy and to

exercise all these to the utmost in all of my

dealings with womankind.


Glory to God in the highest, Glory to God

most High, God who is the Most Gracious and

the Most Merciful, Great is God and there is

no other God but He. God Who created all the

worlds and all the heavens, God who is the

only Source of salvation, God who is the only

Hope of redemption, God who is the only

good, God Who is my only sanctuary, God

who is my only safe harbour from the storm.

Glory to God in the highest, glory to God

most high,

In excelsis Deo.


Amen.