Our Daily Bread

England’s historic Coventry Cathedral was devastated when Nazi planes blitzed it during World War II. In the middle of the ruins, the authorities placed a huge cross made from two charred beams of wood. On that cross were engraved the words, “Father, forgive.” Not the three familiar words of Jesus, “Father, forgive them” (Lk. 23:34). No, just “Father, forgive.”