Praying the OUR FATHER

Today's Gospel gives us Luke's short version of the Lord's Prayer. (Lk 11: 2-4). It would be good to pray this familiar prayer slowly to see if it strikes us differently from Matthew's version, which is the one we use daily.  Bishop Robert Barron rephrases it succinctly: " Can you see how this prayer rightly orders us? We must put God’s holy name first; we must strive to do his will in all things and at all times; we must be strengthened by spiritual food or we will fall; we must be agents of forgiveness; we must be able to withstand the dark powers."  (Bishop Robert Barron's Daily Gospel Reflection, 7/28/19)  
A new, highly recommended short book, THE OUR FATHER, by a German New Testament scholar, Father Gerhard Lohflink, is readable and gives new insights that might help us love this prayer even more.
No matter what version, what commentary we use, the important thing is is persistence, fidelity to prayer, as Jesus goes on to tell us  (Lk 11-13).  We cannot remain strong in the faith without prayer, even when we don't receive the answer we would like.  We need to adapt more completely to "thy will be done", a lesson that engulfs a lifetime.
Bro. Rene