Be Glad.
Feast Day of St Ansgar
With all my heart,
I will praise the Lord.
Let all who are helpless,
listen and be glad. ~ Psalm 34:2(CEV)
Be glad in the Lord always! Again I say, be glad! Let your gentleness show in your treatment of all people. The Lord is near. ~ Philippians 4:4-5 (CEB)
KEY IDEA:
The Lord has given us many good reasons to be glad.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Lord, for your care. I was in a bad situation and you intervened on my behalf. Even though I sometimes wallow in sadness fill me with a sense of joy. Help me to appropriately respond to your nearness. I'm going to treat others as you have treated me. 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)
