Paint This Story on the Stones

Selections from Devarim/Words in Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26.1-29.8

You are standing this day before God

Cross over the Jordon and enter the land God is giving you
(Come into the land of awakening)

Make an altar of unhewn stones
A place to re-dedicate your life to God
(Love all and serve all)

Set up great stones. Paint this story on the stones
Plaster and write on them the words of God’s teachings
(The story is in the stones, in the letters. Each is a symbol)

We cry out and with a strong hand
God brings us forth from the straits

To this place -- a land of milk and honey
(Nirvanna, mind-nakedness, nothing lacking)

Listen to the voices of God

Chop wood, carry water (Do your work, do your calling)
Tithe the tithe of your increase (Steady on, steady on)

Consecrate your home
By sharing with people so they won’t be in need

See what God does before our very eyes
Delighting in making us prosperous and multiplying us

With our abundance let us serve all in joy and gladness
(Say aloud) “My father was a wandering Aramean”

A treasured people are we who walk in the Tao
Along the natural way

In the glory of God’s praises we are uplifted to be holy

Now call out to God: Look forth from your sacred abode
And bless your people and this land!