Fourth Prayer

EBBA LINDQVIST

TRANSLATED BY JANICE D. SODERLING

Give us today our daily bread.

You ask what we mean?



Well, by daily bread



we mean ordinary bread




ordinary old-fashioned bread






that doesn’t contain too much strontium 90 and give us not too high a dose of radioiodine 131 in our breast milk so our infants won’t be damaged already before their first birthday.




Can you please make that your will?




We ask in this prayer that you allow those heavy clouds charged with nuclear radiation to drift up to the Arctic regions without damaging any living thing,
not the grass, not the herbs,—
and relieve us of our charge over the fowl of the air and the fish of the sea.

Deliver us from our dominion over the earth. We seem to have totally lost control.




And that’s a fact.