This week’s column takes a closer, rational, line-by-line look at the so-called Lord’s Prayer or “Our Father.”  Many of us were raised with this prayer since childhood.  It was our “daily bread,” a permanent implant in our brains.  But what does it mean?  

Trying to Understand the Lord’s Prayer

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(The photos show my fresh baked banana bread.  The image on this page has a backdrop of  the Olympic mountains in my home state of Washington where I first learned my prayers)