The Lord’s Prayer

After Otto Nicolai, “Pater noster, Op. 33” 

Our Father –

the heavens are Your home,

       earth Your tent,          and yet

           You are a Father.           Teach

our fickle hearts,       our yelling hearts,

           to still, to stop

to look upon               Your glory, high

                               and lifted up.

Our Father who         our Father in

            Our Father, You who are in heaven

                   hallowed be

              Your name, Your will

      be done in us,    be done in dust.

This broken, fickle dust proclaims

            Your high, exalted, heaven name.

Our Father – You who are

            in heaven – lift

       our      broken            prayers.

       Hallowed be Your name, Your throne

            be known on earth

                today,  as in

            Your heavenglory     home.