Love
Hatred stirs up trouble;
love overlooks the wrongs
that others do.
~ Proverbs 10:12 (CEV)
If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples. ~ John 13:35 (CEV)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Loving actions, words, and attitudes characterize the true follower of Christ Jesus.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for leading the way with your love -- for sending your Son into the world to save us and to draw us into your plan to transform the world through your love. Forgive me for the half-hearted and hit-miss way in which I go about loving others. I'm not really loving others in the way that you love us. But I'm teachable -- I hope -- and I'm counting on you to complete the transformation in my life so that I'm more fully aligned with your love agenda. 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)
