Thine is the... "Power"

Oh my. What a tragedy that people like me were never taught how to be prayed by this prayer, the Our Father! Year after recent year I find this a perfect prayer, the perfect prayer for developing me as a disciple, for making me Christian.

My experience with the last three phrases is the newest. I expect to spend many hundreds of hours, if granted by the Almighty, being pondered by "For Thine is the Power," THE ALMIGHTY! In my experience so far:

• Napoleon: "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit."
• Not Gandhi, but he as an instrument of the Almighty.
• Not King, but he as an instrument of the Almighty.
• Not Jesus, but the Almighty Power for two hundred years, and vague recollection that will not fully die for 2000 years.
• Etc.