Beautiful words. Beautiful music. Beautiful icons. It all makes God seem very real.

It makes you want to be a better person.

If you pray this prayer sincerely, you will become a better person.

The change will be unmistakeable.

When the disciples of Jesus asked him, “Teach us how to pray,” these are the words he gave them.

Listen to them:

“Our Father, who art in Heaven,

hallowed by Thy name.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.”