Deliver Us From Evil
Taken from The Lord and His Prayer
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Deliver Us From Evil
CHAPTER FIVE
The previous chapter focussed on the Running Father, as we looked at the prayer for forgiveness. This time, as we come to the prayer for Deliverance from Evil, the dominant image offered to us is that of the Waiting Mother.
‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.’ The Christmas hymn ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ uses these words of the city where Jesus was born; but we could use them just as well of Mary, the mother of Jesus. ‘Behold, the handmaid of the Lord’, she had said: and this is where it led. A dangerous journey at the wrong time of the year; the travel agent double-booking the hotel room; and then the hope and fear that had been trembling inside her for nine months focussing themselves on the great moment of pain and travail...
Taken from The Lord and His Prayer by Tom Wright