LENT: Revise Our Taking

A bit unrelated to the topic of suffering, but Jenny Hooley (see insightful comments) sent me this Lenten prayer and I want to post it.

A LENTENT PRAYER

You, you giver!
You have given light and life to the world;
You have given freedom from Pharaoh to your people Israel;
You have given your only Son for the sake of the world;
You have given yourself to us;
You have given and forgiven,
and you remember our sin no more.
And we, in response, are takers:
We take eagerly what you give us;
we take from our neighbors near at hand as it is acceptable;
we take from our unseen neighbors greedily and acquisitively;
we take from our weak neighbors thoughtlessly;
we take all that we can lay our hands on.
It dawns on us that our taking does not match your giving.
In this Lenten season revise our taking,
that it may be grateful and disciplined,
even as you give in ways gracious and overwhelming.
Amen.

(Walter Brueggemann, Awed to Heaven, Rooted to Earth - The Prayers of Walter Brueggemann [Minneapolis:Fortress: 2003]

SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 11:25-30 (For further meditation, compare Jesus' life described in Isaiah 53 with Jesus' words in Matthew 11:25-30 ... a new definition of "easy" and "light" I guess)