Talking and trusting
People, trust God all the time.
Tell him all your problems,
because God is our protection. ~ Psalm 62:8 (NCV)
We are certain that God will hear our prayers when we ask for what pleases him. ~ 1 John 5:14 (CEV)
God, sometimes I feel funny talking to you. Am I fooling myself thinking that you care so much that you would pay attention to me? That's a real fear. But I refuse to let that occasional fear stop me from trusting you. You have been taking care of your people as long as there have been people. So I'm going to keep talking with you. I'll continue to ask you to keep your plan moving. And I'd like to be included in that plan. Might your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
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
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
