Give us each day

    our daily bread,

and forgive us our sins,

for we ourselves forgive

               everyone

who is indebted to us.

             Luke 11. 3-4

(What is the connection

between our daily bread

    and forgiveness?

What we need

     and what we really need?

Is there anything

      tripping us up?

God holds nothing back.

Neither should we.)

O LORD,

Change our appetites

   for what we desire,

that we would seek You.

Change our affections

    for what we love,

that we would

        worship You.

Grant to us a different heart

that we would

          ask differently,

          pray differently,

     see others differently,

     see ourselves differently,

     follow You differently,

new choices,

new response,

a different way of walking,

a transformed trajectory

   even in hostile territory.

May we be quick to forgive

            and mean it.

May we be quick to

            ask forgiveness

and be known by Your love.