This is how you are to pray: "Our Father..." ~Matthew 6:9
From the very first word of the Lord's Prayer, our hearts melt with love. God wants to be our father... God, who loves his only-begotten Son with all his love, even unto infinity, extends the love he has for his Son to us. That is what Jesus said in the admirable prayer that he made to his Father for us: "that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them" (John 17:26). Let us then love such a Father. Let us say a thousand times: Our Father, our Father, our Father, will I not love you always? Will we not always be true children enfolded in your paternal tenderness?
...Let us cry ardently, and let all our bones cry out: O God, you are our Father!
~Meditations for Lent by Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
I give you praise, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
~Luke 10:21
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