Our Father in Heaven

I find great encouragement from the Lord's Prayer to give shape to my own prayers. Rather than just a rote prayer, Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer as an outline to teach us how we should pray. When we pray through the Lord's Prayer, phrase by phrase, we understand how God is leading us to pray.

The opening phrase, "Our Father in heaven" is a powerful reminder and truth of the personal access we have to God through our prayers.

During the Apollo space missions to the moon, there were long, uncomfortable periods of silence while the astronauts vanished on the far side of the moon during each orb...