I ran across a version of the Lord’s prayer from Matthew 6, but written in kid’s language. I absolutely love it. It captures the heart of what Jesus taught the disciples to pray.

I’m not here to argue whether Jesus meant the prayer to be recited verbatim or used as a template because honestly, I have no idea which is right. I do think that this prayer is a good guideline for how every prayer should sound, but i’ve also been known to pray it when I have nothing else.

But i do know that this rendering is maybe my new favorite paraphrase of what Jesus taught the disciples to pray as part of the Sermon on the Mount: