Reading: Psalm 39:1-5

LORD God,
show me your ways.
Show me how much I need you day by day.
Help me to value every day
you give me on this earth.
Shine your light in me and through me
by the power of Jesus.
Amen.

— — —

The true light
that gives light to everyone
was coming into the world.
He was in the world,
and though the world was made through him,
the world did not recognize him.
He came to that which was his own,
but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who did receive him,
to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God—
children born not of natural descent,
nor of human decision or a husband’s will,
but born of God.
(John 1:9-13), NIV)*