I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

May We Go where You Send Us--Aug. 28, 2014


Gracious God, you have delivered our souls
from death, our eyes from tears,
our feet from stumbling.
In gratitude, let us go
where you send us.

Through you may
we learn wisdom from
generations long past and the
teachings our Lord received from you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116
Job 8:1-10, 20-22
Acts 10:17-33
John 7:14-36

Selected Verses
Ps. 116:8
For you have delivered my soul from death,
          my eyes from tears,
          my feet from stumbling. 

Job 8:10
"…Will [bygone generations] not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?  …"  [Bildad to Job]

Acts 10:33
"…Therefore I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come.  So now all of us are here in the presence of God to listen to all that the Lord has commanded you to say."  [Cornelius the centurion, to Peter]

John 7:16
Then Jesus answered [those who asked how he had such learning], "My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.  …" 
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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