GOD'S GRAND BLESSING
PSALM 103:22 (MSG)
Bless GOD, all creatures, wherever you are—
everything and everyone made by GOD.
And you, O my soul, bless GOD!
LUKE 13:29 (CEB)
People will come from east and west, north and south, and sit down to eat in God’s kingdom.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Celebrate! For God's blessings are intended for all people, indeed, all creation.
PRAYER
Creator God, I celebrate your big-picture thinking and inclusivity. I confess that I'm relatively small-minded and mostly interested in relating to the people who are most like myself. Expand my horizons so that I can better see the grandness of your kingdom. I'm going to find someone with little in common with me to talk with today. In the name of Christ Jesus, 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)
