
Teach us to pray
I remember distinctly the day I told my father that I had memorized the Lord’s Prayer. I recited it for him and he was very pleased. I think as a child, I thought I had solved the problem of how to pray with being able to recite the prayer from memory. But life moved on and I learned from my own experiences that it wasn’t really that easy. Jesus was praying and one of his disciples noticed and asked him to teach “us” to pray. In that very description of the scene unfolding be