Transforming the Words of our Prayers

Last updated on: October 11, 2009 at 10:01 am

October 11, 2009 by Scot McKnight

C.S. Lewis, in “Footnote to All Prayers” (Poems

), made this brilliant observation:

Take not, O Lord, our literal sense. Lord, in thy great

Unbroken speech our limping metaphor translate.

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