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.

Live and Move and Have Our Being--Sept. 20, 2014


We rejoice and are glad in you, our Maker, our King;
for in you we live and move and have our being.
With royal liberality you have given us gifts--
Jesus has come as a light into the world,
so that everyone who believes in him
should not remain in darkness.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111
Esth. 2:5-8, 15-23
Acts 17:16-34
John 12:44-50

Selected Verses
Ps. 149:2
 Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
          let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. 

Esth. 2:18
Then the king gave a great banquet to all his officials and ministers--"Esther's banquet."  He also granted a holiday to the provinces, and gave gifts with royal liberality.

Acts 17:28
"…For 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.' …"  [Paul to the Athenians]

John 12:46
"…I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.  …"  [Jesus]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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