Here’s a
paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer from Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild’s Human Rites: Worship Resources for an Age of
Change (published by Mowbray).
Lord’s Prayer Paraphrase: Beloved
(inspired by Matthew 6: 9-13, Luke 11: 2-4)
Beloved,
our Father and Mother, in whom is heaven,
hallowed
be your name,
followed
be your royal way,
done be
your will and rule,
throughout
the whole creation.
With the
bread we need for today, feed us.
In the
hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times
of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From
trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the
grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you
reign in the glory of the power that is love,
Now and
forever.
Amen.
~ from Human
Rites: Worship Resources for an Age of Change, by Hannah Ward and Jennifer
Wild (Mowbray,1998). http://www.amazon.ca/Human-Rites-Worship-Resources-Change/dp/0264673344
