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Give Us All Our Daily Bread: Prayer Part 3

“Give us each day our daily bread.” - Luke 11:3

The first portion of the prayer is to give us an expanded awareness of the spiritual, of the sacred and the holy in our everyday lives. The second portion is to increase our determination and desire to see a world filled with equity and justice for everyone. This third portion focuses us on our desire to see that everyone has their basic needs met.

Whose needs? Give us our daily bread. Not give me my daily bread. Who is us? We have a natural tendency to want to limit or exclude others, to draw our circles tight, to define who is in and who is out. We are like the lawyer in the previous chapter who wanted to clearly define who his neighbor was in order for him to also know who his neighbor wasn’t.

Jesus’s parable of “The Good Samaritan”, teaches us to be a good neighbor to those who need us to be rather than asking who our neighbor is. Similarly, the model prayer invites us to desire that everyone including ourselves, regardless of affinity or affiliation has their basic needs met.

Give us all our daily bread.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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