Saturday, March 14, 2015

Harmonizing

From sunrise to sunset, let the Lord’s name be praised! ~ Psalm 113:3 (CEB)

God is the one who makes us patient and cheerful. I pray that he will help you live at peace with each other, as you follow Christ. Then all of you together will praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Romans 15:5–6 (CEV)

God, the greatest praise occurs while your people are harmonizing -- living peacefully with each other. And that only happens when we are following Christ from the moment we wake-up until the moment we go to sleep. That is a lot of harmonizing and we too easily grow weary of each other. So, I pray for the peace of Christ to rule in our midst. Please, start with me and my voice. I am counting on you to grant me additional patience and a more cheerful disposition. Amen.

Challenging Words
  • harmonizing -- singing or acting together in a way that the voices or actions blend together in a beautiful way
  • weary -- tired or fatigued
  • disposition -- nature, temperament, character, constitution, makeup, mentality, way of being 



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The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul.

The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston

TRANSLATIONS

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CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)

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NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

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