SPEND SOME TIME
PSALM 48:9 (ABP)
O God, as we sit here in your place of worship, we ponder and ponder your unfaltering love.
ACTS 3:1 (MSG)
Peter and John were on their way into the Temple for prayer meeting.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Spend some time in the place where you meet with God and marvel at his love.
PRAYER
Lord, your love is marvelous. I confess that there are days that go by when I don't even notice it, though. I have allowed my life to fill up with busyness and distractions galore. Slow me down and reset my clock so that I can have time to focus on you and your great love. I pray in the name of Jesus, who is your love in the flesh. 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 — 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)
