Lettuce pray that we will be heard correctly - Words
Ruth Wajnryb; 5/4/08
When I went to primary school, we recited the Lord’s Prayer at assembly every morning. With no idea who the Lord was, nor what praying meant, I tried not to poke too semantically at key words. “Hallowed”, “trespass”, “forgive” were far too opaque, and too disconnected from my secular life. Certainly couldn’t get my little head around “sin”. Years later I re-encountered “trespass”, at construction sites, but I remain unable to contemplate the word today without thoughts blowing in of those hot morning assemblies on the shade-free asphalt.