God's love
The First Sunday in Advent
Your faithful love is priceless, God!
Humanity finds refuge in the shadow of your wings. ~ Psalm 36:7 (CEB)
Think how much the Father loves us. He loves us so much that he lets us be called his children, as we truly are. ~ 1 John 3:1a (CEV)
God, you protect us by wrapping us up in your love. I feel safe being so close to you. It's does not make sense that I'd ever wander from this place. But I do. And then you welcome me back -- as a father welcomes a returning child. Your love is that big. Today I'm going to focus my thoughts on your transforming love. 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 — my own 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)
