Living the Prayer of Jesus: A Study of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic - Hardcover

by Stephanie Rutt (Author)

This "little book with a big message" will completely transform your understanding of what Jesus meant when he answered the request, "Lord, teach us to pray." He answered by reciting what we now have come to know as the Lord's Prayer, in the common language of his day, Aramaic. Within these short pages, you will journey back to hear the original words for yourself and, in doing so, will receive the true essence of Jesus' message regarding how we should pray. You will receive the expanded meanings and reach new depths in understanding. But, rest assured, this is only the beginning! For just as the early disciples discovered, reciting the prayer in Aramaic ignites a spark--a spark that awakens a remembrance of our innate divinity as children of the living God. And as this remembrance begins to resound in the silent chambers of the heart, the prayer begins to inform every aspect of daily life. Nothing is the same. We have been set afire by love everlasting and left undone, and can only release our own, involuntary, ecstatic cry. This is what it means to pray!

Author Biography

Stephanie Rutt is founder and presiding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Milford, New Hampshire. She received her DMin from Andover Newton Theological School, now Andover Newton Seminary at Yale, where she graduated with honors. She is the creator of the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary, author of several additional books, has lectured nationally on the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, and has appeared on the TEDx stage.