RHYTHM
EXODUS 34:21 (MSG)
Work six days and rest the seventh.
1 TIMOTHY 4:16 (MSG)
Keep a firm grasp on both your character and your teaching. Don’t be diverted. Just keep at it.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Maintain a rhythm that keeps sight of what's important to God.
PRAYER
Lord, in these shorter, busier days of fall, I often lose my awareness of your presence. Forgive me for making my tasks the whole picture. Reboot my vision, I want to abide in your promises. Let me rest in you that I might witness to your faithful working in me. Amen. (Daily Texts, Mount Carmel Ministries edition)
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
