Furthermore…

When I used to come to this line in the Our Father I would think that I was probably lucky because I didn’t seem to have much of a problem with folks trespassing against me, which I took to mean bullying, starting fights, stealing and vandalizing my property, spreading stories about me, or the like.

More recently, I look at it differently, with “us” referring to GOD AND His people. There are plenty enough of ‘those’ nowadays who are trespassiong against, intolerantly attacking, if that’s not too strong a word, God, the Church, it’s faith in and witnessing to God, and its people. It’s quite a challenge to forgive ‘those’ folks. So now that line in the prayer has much greater meaningfulness to me.