PONDER
PSALM 119:148 (CEV)
I lie awake at night,
thinking of your promises.
LUKE 2:19 (CEV)
Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
The model believer ponders the words and activity of God.
PRAYER
God, one of the great privileges in my life has been to see you at work. There are things I can't explain otherwise. Yet, I still allow unhealthy thoughts to live in my head. Nudge them out so that I'm musing on you 24/7. Even when I'm unable to sleep I'm going to go back over in my mind your words and how I've seen them worked out. Amen.
*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)
