The Papa Prayer | Larry Crabb
by Matt McCarnan on June 6th, 2007
Larry Crabb. The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You’ve Never Prayed. Thomas Nelson, 2006. 224 pp.
My father always called his father Papa. He lost his papa when he was five years old. When he would tell me what he remembered of his papa in the five years he knew him, Dad’s eyes would turn away from me, and he would speak as one happily lost in a better world. It was the same look that came over him when he prayed. I didn’t understand that look until recently.
I never remember my dad referring to his father as “Father” or “Dad” or “Daddy.” It was always “Papa.”
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