There is no other God but God
La Illaha Illa Llah.
This is what is tirelessly hidden behind each of the sentences of the Our Father.
The spiritual dynamics of the refocusing of this Muslim Dhirk
and the pattern persisting throughout Christian prayer.
“Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven ».
The name of God is placed at the center of everything and everything that is not God is in the same movement invited to leave this center.
In the same way that merchants are, unambiguously, “asked” to leave the temple. From there, nothing amputates, nothing undermines the Reign of God in us and around us, in the visible and the invisible (“on earth as it is in heaven”).
“Give us this day our daily bread”
Because “La illah illa llah”
Because there is no other god than God, we place full childlike trust in Him and lose all interest in our own representation of the future, our various plans, our scaffolding. We place, through this understanding that there is no other god but God, our entire future in His hands.
That is to say, we free the present from what is not the present.
What is not “our daily bread” is no longer something to attract our interest, our attention.
We dedicate all our attention to receiving today’s bread, which presents itself to our freed attention.
God is the reality, the only one, that which is not the reality and participates in obscuring it from our sight, that is not God.
La illaha ill llah.
“Forgive us our trespasses, as we also forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation…”
Every offense, behind every type of offense, is actually a way of looking at something other than this reminder: There is no god but God.
A way of tuning into a god other than God, an attention devoted to something other than this reality, gives rise to a deviation from la illaha illa llah.
(a sin, etymologically).
This deviation from deep reality results in suffering.
Ours and that which we participate in creating in others.
The recognition that there is no other reality than God, other than the other gods that we have followed, those of desire, of pleasure, of affirmation, of identification with, of revenge towards, anger against…caused this suffering.
In this prayer, we return to the center and thus allow our deliverance (“Deliver us…) our liberation from the worlds of suffering in which we were locked up.
Notes & Silence 
There may be no god but god, and for those of us who speak of « the gods », there may, still, be one, unifying deity.
But, men forget. And make god their own image.
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