UNENDING GRACE
the First Sunday in Advent
PSALM 115:14 (CEV)
I pray that the Lord
will let your family
and your descendants
always grow strong.
LUKE 1:50 (CEB)
He shows mercy to everyone,
from one generation to the next,
who honors him as God.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God's grace is unending.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for extending so much mercy and grace to me. I mess up a lot and maybe I take your kindness too casually but it's what keeps me going. Help me to approach my family and my neighbors with the same kind of grace. I'm going to bask in your kindness. Amen.
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)
