Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

In response to the disciples question, Lord, teach us to pray. Jesus entrusted them with the fundamental Christian prayer, the Our Father.

It's something we pray often, but we rarely think about it.

And there are eight amazingly significant and powerful lines that make up the Our Father. So for the next few days we're going to take this

profound prayer and open it up line by line so that we can really live as the children of God.

Now when my son Xavier was very little I tried to teach him the Our Father. I would say to him, okay Xavier, let's pray the Our Father. And he would get a big smile and full of confidence he would say, father our father and then he would stop

Certain that he had mastered the prayer though he was a long way from learning the whole prayer, it struck me that he actually

mastered the most important part. God is our father. And if we would really let that sink in, it would completely

transform our lives. But we have not let it sink in, and we're really living like orphans.

There are between 100 and 400 billion stellar systems in our galaxy alone,

and somewhere between 100 billion and two trillion galaxies in the universe.

And those are just the ones we can see.

God our father created that colossal universe and he holds it in his hands.

Yet we have such a hard time trusting him.

And how could we need more proof that God could take care of us than just by looking at the stars in heaven.

I guess we don't look at the stars in heaven enough,

but if we did, we would begin to realize that if God can handle the universe he can certainly handle our lives.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver

us from evil, Amen.

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