Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Surely the disciples knew how to pray. The Jews had their prayers and their times for prayer. The disciples knew how to pray, like we know how to pray. For prayer is the breath of the Christian. We breathe in God's Word and we breathe out that word in prayer. Yet we could be better, do better. So we can understand the request of the disciples that we heard today: Lord, teach us to pray. It is our request, too. The hardest part of learning is learning to ask the right questions. This was the right question, the right request. Lord, teach us to pray.