Rules for life

After Matthew 6:9-15 

It is the best-known,

best-remembered,

most-often-spoken-aloud

instruction in the lengthy

rules for life explained

on that hillside

on that day.

It is embedded

within a series

of rules: blessings

and salt and light

and anger and lust

and divorce and oaths

and revenge and

enemies (live them!)

and giving and fasting

and anxiety and

judging and needs

and serving. Almost

right in the middle,

there it is: the rule

for how to pray.

 

Photograph by Jack Sharp via Unsplash. Used with permission.