Hallowed Be Thy Name
So I hadn't meant to be working on this particular post here at 1 in the morning, but life has a funny way of throwing things at you that you don't entirely plan. I'm awake, and I need to pray. "Hallowed be thy Name." I'm not sure which is the biggest stumbling block: "Our Father," "Who art in Heaven," or this one: "Hallowed be thy Name." As in when people say, "You have your name for God, I have mine," as if to suggest that there is some reality in the rivalry between the names. And yet, note that nowhere does the Lord's Prayer actually name God other than as "Father." Maybe there is a gender issue at stake here, although I think not . Rather, the prayer is simply stating the fact that God has a Name and that it should be sanctified, kept holy, hallowed. I know, I've heard all about "the Christian God," as if there could be others. As if somehow the Christians had their own private god...