How Does A Course in Miracles Regard the Lords Prayer?
by Robert Perry How should students of A Course in Miracles view the Lord’s Prayer? Should they pray it, for instance, as part of their spiritual practice? Many students know that the Course has its own version of this prayer (T-16.VII.12), but what they may not realize is that the Course contains literally dozens of scattered references to different parts of the Lord’s Prayer. I recently did a study of these references, as part of a dialogue with a friend (in which, for his part, he educated me on how the prayer has been traditionally viewed), and what I found was fascinating. Over and over the Course alludes to some particular part of the Lord’s Prayer but modifies it in such a way as to subtly comment on it. Overall, this commentary expresses significant agreement with the prayer but also communicates a great deal of correction, either of the meaning in the prayer or the meaning we associate with the prayer. In what follows I will attempt to capture the essence of that commentary fo
