Our Father, slowly
The Lord's Prayer as a lifelong teacher, taken one line at a time. This is the first session most people new to Selah are given, and it assumes no background at all.
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1 Settle
You do not need to know how to pray to begin. That is more or less the point of what follows.
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2 Scripture
Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.
Matthew 6:9–13 · World English Bible -
3 Reflection
Our, not my. The prayer is plural from its first word, which means that even said alone it is said with other people. Daily bread is the line worth sitting with: not a year of security, just today. It was given to people who mostly did not know where the following week's food was coming from, and it has been prayed since by people in every condition, which is part of why it wears so well.
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4 Prayer
Our Father in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. That is as far as I am going to get tonight, and it is enough.
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5 Journal
Which line stayed with you? No need to say why.
Why this session?
In the app this is one tap away from every session. It is reproduced here in full, because a claim about transparency that you have to take on trust is not one.
- The signal that chose it
- You chose New to faith when you set up your account.
- What was adapted
- The Broadly evangelical lens chose the plainer of the author's two glosses on daily bread. No term is used that the session does not explain.
- What may never be adapted
- The scripture text, the translation, and the shape of the session. No lens and no personalisation may alter a word of the passage.
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