Proper 20 (Year A): Litany for Bread

First off, please check out Litany for Scarcity, which also explores themes from this week's Lectionary passages for Year A. 

This week’s litany is based in the Lectionary texts from Exodus 16, Psalm 145, and Matthew 20. 

God we know that what we have in this world is temporary.
All things pass away:
Our possessions,
Our bodies.We need bread for today,
For we don’t know what the future holds. 

Proper 12 (Year C): Litany for Prayerful Living

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This week I’m working on a sermon on the gospel Lectionary of Luke 11:1-13, Luke’s account of the Lord’s Prayer and Christ’s comments on prayer in general. My mind is going to the truth I learn over and over again: that prayer is formational, and not just intercessory. These days, the best definition of prayer I can come up with is this: living attentively to God. And this both forms us in our character and soul and gives us rapport with God so that we may ask for what we want and need. When the disciples ask him to teach them how to pray, he teaches them how to live. 

Oh God, teach us how to live attentively to you.
Teach us how to pray (1).
For by our attention to you,
We learn how to be in the world.