Fixing
The sun of righteousness will dawn on those who honor my name, healing radiating from its wings. ~ Malachi 4:2a (MSG)
May your kingdom come.
May what you want to happen be done
on earth as it is done in heaven. ~ Matthew 6:10 (NIRV)
Lord, you are in the process of fixing this broken world -- getting it to more closely resemble heaven. Thank you. And please start with me. I don't care how hard it is or how much pain I have to go through to realign my life to your kingdom agenda, I want to be healed and to be a part of what you are doing on earth. My hope is in you and your kingdom ways. 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)
