Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread – 4/11/16

This Sunday we will be continuing our study of the Lord’s Prayer with the petition to “give us our daily bread. ” In asking for our daily bread, we remember our reliance on God. We recognize that our lives are a gift from God and that we are daily dependent upon him. But there is another side to this petition that we often do not recognize. In praying for our daily bread, we are also asking God to give us the grace to know when enough is enough. To help us to say no when the world entices us to claim for ourselves more than our share. In this way we begin to recognize what it is we need rather than what it is we desire.