Presence

Welcome back to our series on prayer. Today we begin to unpack the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples by looking closely at the significance of the first line. Abba is the Aramaic name for God that Jesus used. This was a very intimate term — referring to God as family — and was a radical idea in Jesus’ day. Relationship was central to Jesus’ teaching and what he passed on to us is that we are as close with the Divine as a parent and child. How might addressing God with a diversity of names in prayer help form us as disciples and make God more present to us? “Presence” is our focus about prayer today. God is always present, but are we?