Being kingdom-people and being penitence-people comes with the turf. That’s part of what following Jesus is all about. Praying those two prayers – the kingdom-prayer, the forgiveness-prayer – might just alert us to the real anti-kingdom forces at work in our world, our real ‘trespasses’ (against one another, in our political systems; against the natural world and particularly the animal kingdom, in our farming and food-chain systems) of which we should have repented long ago.
