Friday, December 25, 2020

LET THE JOY FLOW!

Christmas

PSALM 144:15 (CEB)
The people whose God is the LORD are truly happy!

LUKE 2:10-11 (ABP)
‘Don’t be afraid,’ the angel said to the shepherds. ‘Pay close attention because I’ve got good news for you -- wonderful news for all people. This very day in David's Town your savior has been born -- indeed, the Messiah, the Lord!

SUMMARY SENTENCE
It's Christmas -- let the joy flow!

PRAYER
Mighty God, thank you for intervening in our troubled world. It didn't happen exactly the way we thought it would. Forgive me for allowing my faulty expectations to get in the way of truly celebrating what you have done for us. I need help letting go of all the faulty ideas I have about what makes Christmas significant. I'm going to celebrate what you have done, and continue to do, through the birth of your Son into our world. 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)

NRSV = New Revised Standard Version (© 1989 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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