I spent time back in Matthew re-reading the Lord’s Prayer. Tonight I chose to use the New Living Translation to break my thoughts off of the overly familiar words in the King James…

⁹ Pray like this:
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be kept holy.
¹⁰ May your Kingdom come soon.
May your will be done on earth,
as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us today the food we need,
¹² and forgive us our sins,
as we have forgiven those who sin against us.
¹³ And don’t let us yield to temptation,
but rescue us from the evil one.

The verse which immediately gave me pause was

May your Kingdom come soon.

Not a wishful thinking or a fatalistic attitude, but more of a desire to see the broken world we live in be made new, the hurting people I talk to find peace, and the anger and divisions between human beings be ended. A place of healing made reality. A time of sadness and discouragement ended.

Gives me a whole new motivation to pray…