Bind Us Together

There's a hymn that I've sung in church since I was a kid which asks, "bind us together, Lord, bind us together, with cords that cannot be broken" (some versions replace "cords" with "chains", but that seems a rather depressing view of community). I have always appreciated the image and was reminded of it when I read this quote from Richard Foster:

"Think of the misery that comes into our lives by our restless gnawing greed. We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sport spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion."

My question is this: Can we ask God to bind us with cords that we have every intention of severing through our own greed?