Tracing Out the Lord's Prayer

We've been saying the Lord's prayer weekly of late. It seemed wise to begin walking through it...bit by bit.

First my take on OUR FATHER...
The first two words communicates that we are a people. I am part of the community of grace. Also, that we have intimacy, family love, with God.

Now something by Octavius Winslow
To see my Father's smile reflected in the smile of my Savior; to behold His glory beaming in the face of Jesus; to hear His voice in the echoes of Christ's love; to trace His compassion, tenderness, and sympathy in the very words and works and tears of the Great High Priest, even when the discipline of the parental rod is the most severe, this is heaven upon earth.

Read the rest of his teaching here.