The Lord's Prayer
Chile, 1986
Holy Father,
Make manifest your will on earth as it is in Heaven,
Give us each day our daily bread,
Forgive us for the wrong we have done
As we forgive those who have wronged us.
Help us to withstand temptation
And save us from evil.
Amen.
The strains and stresses of Choquelimpie took me back to church in Chile. I used to enjoy going to the church of the Immaculate Conception in Vitacura. I wanted a Lord's Prayer in today's language and came up with this version. Now, as a member of the British Humanist Association, I look back and remember with curiosity how in adversity my religious upbringing was all I could find to rely on.
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