Saturday, December 5, 2015

Light!

St Nicholas Day
The Second Sunday in Advent

Arise! Shine! Your light has come; the Lord’s glory has shone upon you. ~ Isaiah 60:1 (CEB)

All of you are children of light and children of the day. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:5a (CEB)
Lord, you are the light of the world. And you have shone your light on us -- converting us into children of light. That is such a privilege -- and responsibility -- to be the light-bearers. We are too casual about that task and ask that you'd forgive us for letting the darkness in at times. And please stoke the fire within us so that we can outshine the darkness around us. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the dark cloud that has settled on some of the people around me. Give me the wisdom I need so that I know where exactly it is that you want me to start aiming the light. Amen.
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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)

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)

NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)

NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)

NRSVUE = New Revised Standard Version (© 2021 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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