A family prayer^ for slow but steady movers (walkers etc.)

Our PAPA*, who is in heaven,

you are great and true!

I want you to come and be king.

I want people on Earth to do everything you say,

just like everyone does in Heaven.

Please give us some ordinary good food to eat today,

& please forgive us for the bad things we've done

- the same way that we forgive other people when they do bad things to us.

Please save us from the things that help us to do bad things, and please save us from badness.

You are the only true King who can do this;

and you are our PAPA*!

Amen!

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^  Matthew 6:5-15; Luke 11:1-13; Consider this suggestion from the national director for all members of the Cornerstone Community Mission Order recently - to pray the Lord’s prayer daily - slowly and meaningfully.. (to) help you pray this prayer Jesus taught his disciples, and for it to shape you as members of Jesus'  movement. https://thebibleproject.com/podcast/matthew-p10-lords-prayer/

*  Upside down and mixed around, but similar meaning to "AbbA". And Paul in his epistles (Romans 8:9-17; & Galatians 4:6), reflecting on Jesus' prayer (in the garden, as recorded in Mark 14:36), takes special note of the childlike wording of his actual Aramaic (the heart language of village children to their fathers) word of address to God. Then he says, we who are Jesus' disciples (= "children", inheritors of his spirit), are now able to follow our family wording of an address for the creator of the Universe. (When our children were little, they said "Dadda", then "Daddy").

! The last word is another Aramaic word Jesus (Yeshua), used a lot, to mean "Truly" or "Yes, Yes!". Jesus is said to be the very "yes"-ance of God! 2 Cor 1:17-22 . And his speech regarding God, and speech to God, is taken by those who follow him, acknowledging him to be the Christ (i.e. Christ-ians), as paradigmatic, and worth following.

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