Rejoice and Praise

Reflections on faith, hope, and the quiet journey with Christ

There’s a moment in every translation where something is lost — and something is found.

“Bread of Our Need (Aramaic),” releasing Wednesday, September 30, grew from my desire to hear the Lord’s Prayer through the language and world in which Jesus lived.

The Gospels preserve the prayer for us in Greek, but Jesus himself spoke Aramaic. Returning to that linguistic world does not give us a recording of the exact words spoken two thousand years ago. What it can do is invite us to listen again.

“Give us today the bread of our need.”

“Forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those indebted to us.”

Familiar words begin to sound slightly unfamiliar. And sometimes that is enough to make us stop hearing a prayer by memory and begin praying it again.

I set these words as a quiet, sacred hymn, with oud, nay flute, a low drone, and an unhurried pace.

Prayer, not performance.

And at the end, simply:

Amen.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Our Father who is in heaven,
may Your name be made holy.
May Your kingdom come,
may Your will be done,
as in heaven, so on earth.

[Chorus]
Yours is the kingdom,
Yours is the power,
Yours is the glory
unto the ages of ages.
Amen. Amen.

[Verse 2]
Give us today
the bread of our need.
Forgive us our debts,
as we have forgiven
those indebted to us.

[Chorus]
Yours is the kingdom,
Yours is the power,
Yours is the glory
unto the ages of ages.
Amen. Amen.

[Verse 3]
Do not bring us into trial,
but deliver us from evil.
Our Father who is in heaven,
may Your name be made holy.

[Chorus]
Yours is the kingdom,
Yours is the power,
Yours is the glory
unto the ages of ages.
Amen.
Amen.

Listen on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and Amazon Music — Linda Lok.

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