Our Father
Proper noun
Meaning
(Christianity) God.
(Christianity) (Our Father) The Lord's Prayer, which begins with these words.
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Our father who art in heaven Stay there And we will stay here on earth Which is sometimes so pretty.
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.