Vindication from Tom Wright!

I'm still on this kick of checking out potential internet links to go on the wiki for my book. In the course of my investigations I found something by my somewhat famous diocesan Bishop, Tom Wright. Reading it with a degree of trepidation [would this eminent NT scholar write something that would 'ruin' an argument of mine, for example?], I was delighted to find him making arguments very similar to mine, viz. "... allow the shape as well as the content of the Lord’s Prayer to inform ... liturgy more strongly, not just in that part of the worship service labeled “prayer” but also in the structure of the whole. Invocation of God as Father, worship and prayer that sanctifies God’s name, prayer for Jesus’ kingdom work to find its complete fulfillment on earth as in heaven — all of these might come first. Intercession for particular blessings, of which bread is among the most basic and hence symbolic of the rest, would occur within this larger context.
Furthermore, we should note that, against the grain of some post-Augustinian liturgies, the church is not instructed by its Lord to approach its Father with “Sorry” as its first word. Even the Prodigal Son began his speech with “Father.” There is, to be sure, an appropriate place for penitence, both for communities and individuals. But the normal Christian approach to the Creator God is the unfettered and delighted “Father.” There is a time for penitence, but its location within the Lord’s Prayer suggests that it should not take pride of place in regular liturgical worship."
Even better, a bit further down, he goes on to say, "The Christian is also called to make the Lord’s Prayer paradigmatic in his or her own personal life" a theme to which I give a whole chapter.
So that's a relief then! And I'm delighted.
The Lord’s Prayer as a Paradigm of Christian Prayer by N.T. Wright: