Why daily?

After Matthew 6:11

Why are we to pray

for bread, daily?

Why not weekly or

monthly, or at least

quarterly, a perfect

planning period

for corporations so why

not us? Surely, we

know our own needs

well enough to pray

for our quarterly bread.

Unless, we don’t know

what we need, not really;

perhaps we barely grasp

what we need daily;

who thought daily 

might be abstract?

Except it is. And asking

for daily bread keeps us

on our knees, a reminder

of how little we know,

how little we control.

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More than bread

After Matthew 6:11

Bread is basic

but more is required

to live a day, one day,

daily. Bread is

sustenance, it is

health, it is provision,

it is love, it is life,

it is work, it is all

the things we need

to live a day, not

the things we want.

And to ask for it is

also a a metaphor.

a symbol of dependence

upon the source who

provides the bread,

daily.

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Bread

After Matthew 6:11

It’s not a reference

to rolls or brioche

or a French baguette

or Italian or sliced,

or whole wheat or rye

or corn or any other

variety or variation;

instead, it’s a symbol,

a metaphor, standing in

for what provides

sustenance and life

each day. And

each day, we are

to pray for it.

Simple.

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