What does the Lord's Prayer Mean Anyway? And Could We Learn from the Haitian People What God's Will in Heaven Could Be?
Tonight, with the team that is here, we ended the nightly prayer praying The Lord's Prayer. Our Father who art in Heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will be done On Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this Day our Daily Bread And forgive us our tresspasses As we forgive those who tresspass against us Lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever Amen As we were praying I began to really think about those words. Too often memorized things become just that, memorized. Something we say because we are supposed to. Something that we say to feel more spiritual or to be a part of the group. How often do we really think about the words of this prayer? Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Our Father in Heaven should be hollowed. What does Hollowed mean anyway? The American Heritage Dictionary defines hallowed as "sanctified; consecrated; highly venerated; sacrosanct....