When They're Only Words

I realized there was something wrong.  I had recited it for so many years yet this time something was different.  I was merely parroting words I had learned in my childhood without thinking.  It's as if they were only words!  

 

How many times have we recited prayers without ever giving much of a thought? I hear children recite "God is Great, God is good" in the sing-song manner they've been taught.  How many times do we recite the Lord's Prayer without ever pondering what we are saying! 

 

You see, words are a passion of mine, and when they lose their significance and meaning...my mind kicks out of neutral and begins to shudder. Therefore, I have issued myself a challenge (feel free to join in if you wish) to write, not type, but take pen to paper and write, the Lord's Prayer in words that explain what it means to me.  I will write it every day for a month. Then I will do the same with another passage I have memorized. And continue this until they are no longer merely words but become a fire within my soul as once they were!

 

Here is my Lord's Prayer:

 

Abba,

Your Name is Holy and Revered,

We are Your Kingdom,

Bring us Your love, grace and mercy as You fill Your Kingdom in Heaven,

Give us everything we need to be Your beacon on Earth each day,

And in Your grace and mercy, don't keep track of our offenses against You in the same way we don't keep track of the offenses of others against us.

Guide us in the way You want us to live and love,

Wrap us in Your protection and keep is in Your Light of Love.

The universe is Your Kingdom,

You are all powerful and filled with Glory,

Reign in our hearts and souls always.

Amen

 

When we merely recite, we forget their meaning.