To make the Lord's Prayer your own- take each line and think from the standpoint of Christ, of knowing you are the child of God, knowing Him completely and known by Him completely. The Comforter is ours- we all know the real meaning of each word, the underlying truth of our being, the Truth of who and what and where God is.
The Lord's Prayer is not a request of God, it is an acknowledgement of what we know of God. Here is just one day's example of how to make the Lord's Prayer a working prayer, how to reach for the depth of meaning in the words- for it is the meaning that illuminates the divine reality and heals us. Every time we pray we make it new, building on what we have learned, alive with our desire to know the divine wholeness.
Our Father
Our Father… Father of us all, of all things.
Which art in Heaven
Heaven is where You are.
Heaven is here and now
We are in heaven with You.
Hallowed be Thy Name
Holy is Your Name- Your nature and character.
Harmony, wholeness.
We are whole because You are.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.*
[*This beautiful phrasing is from the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, as found in Chapter 1, page 16-17 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, with key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy ]
Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven
Your heavenly Good is here to be found, now, in the world.
Give us this day our daily bread
You have already given us everything we need for each day, for each moment.
We have all that You are.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors
And You forgive us, as we forgive.
We are freed from the burdens of sin, disease, or death, when we free others.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
You lead us away from temptation, and
in the moment we are attentive to You -
we are free from all that is not You.
For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever.
This is Your kingdom.
Yours is the only power.
You are the only I
There is none else.