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.

Make Our Hearts Burn within Us, Jesus--July 8, 2015


Lord Jesus, our salvation, we sing to
 you and bless your name.
Pray let your Spirit come upon us,
and make us clean,
and open the scriptures to us,
and make our hearts
burn within us, as you made the
hearts of the disciples
burn on the road to Emmaus.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 96; 147:1-11; 132; 134
1 Sam. 16:1-13
Acts 10:1-16
Luke 24:13-35

Selected Verses
Ps. 96:2
 Sing to the LORD, bless his name;
          tell of his salvation from day to day. 

1 Sam. 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed [David] in the presence of his brothers; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward.

Acts 10:15
The voice said to [Peter] again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.” 

Luke 24:32
[Cleopas and the other disciple] said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while [the risen Jesus] was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” 

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