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.

Where Your Spirit Is, Freedom--May 28, 2015


These things we must take to heart:
that everywhere you are God--in heaven
above, on earth beneath--there is no other;

that where your Spirit is, there is freedom
to feast on the abundance of your house,
to drink from the river of your delight;

and that some compromise may be
necessary, even though it may
not seem desirable.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27
Deut. 4:32-40
2 Cor. 3:7-18
Luke 16:1-9

Selected Verses
Ps. 36:8
[Those to whom you give refuge] feast on the abundance of your house,
          and you give them drink from the river of your delights. 

Deut. 4:39
So acknowledge today and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 

2 Cor. 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Luke 16:8b
"…for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.  …"  [Jesus to his disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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