it too much—or, more precisely, we may have pondered it too little. If so, then we have to change. Often we’re tempted to consider the Lord’s Prayer as a kind of inspired but ad hoc arrangement, improvised by our Lord on the spot as a quick reply to an unexpected request. We grant that it’s very good, of course—since it came from Jesus Himself—but we don’t trouble ourselves to find a structure or an inner logic in something so spontaneous. That approach, however, is completely mistaken. The Lord’s