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Give us each day.....
as we forgive others....

Is this really how we are to pray? Are we really to understand that our walk with Christ is a daily witness to the power of grace and the faithfulness of God? That we are to trust that each day we will be given enough for that day, and to ask for more than a single day of sustenance is a measure of a lack of trust? Really? What would it mean to live each day trusting that God will give enough....that day for that day....not to store up and worry about next week, year? What kind of anxiety would that produce? What kind of freedom would that give? What type of transformation would be possible through this?

Is this really how we are to pray? Is forgiving my neighbor so important that Jesus insist it be linked to our own forgiveness? So important that we be reminded of it each time we pray the model prayer Jesus gave us? So central to our connection with Christ that he was this specific?
How does praying this prayer change our hearts? Our lives? Our families? our community? our world? What happens to bitterness? What happens to grudges? What happens to reconciliation? What happens to hope?

Is this really how we are to pray?