Devotions + Reflections

FAITH | JUSTICE | GRATITUDE | JOY | COMFORT

Mitzie Schafer Mitzie Schafer

How We Experience the Lord’s Prayer

In my previous way of thinking, hearing this scripture from Luke, and saying the Lord’s prayer each Sunday in worship as a child and young adult, I heard the words through the lens of my childhood theology. What I heard was a list of things that I wanted and needed God to do for me – feed me, forgive me, deliver me, keep me away from those people who hurt me. The structure of the prayer was broken down into categories of prayer petitions that provided a model for how all of my prayers should be spoken. And doesn’t it stand to reason, that when a model is provided, our human nature is to deviate from the model as rebels and then feel guilty?

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