A Place to Play: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer
Publisher: Abingdon Press,U.S. | ISBN: 0687025745 | edition 1998 | PDF | 208 pages | 1,5 mb
"Our-Father-who-art-in-heaven, hallowed-be-thy-name, thy-kingdom come, thy-will-be-done-on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven." After "Now I lay me down to sleep," this was the first grown-up prayer I ever learned to pray, and I imagine it was for a large number of the readers of this book, too. When I was a pig-tailed six-year-old still in knitted yellow pajamas with the feet in them, my mother taught me its words as a bedtime prayer. Apart from "power" and "bread," which I had always understood, and "kingdom," which I had learned about through reading fairy tales, I had very little sense of what I might be praying about.