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.

We Seek Your Living Water--Jan. 2, 2016


O God, you have not forsaken
those who know your name,
who put their trust in you--
for the sojourner, a cake baked
on hot stones, and a jar of water.

But what we seek is your living water;
we have no bucket, and the well is deep.
By your gift of grace, Jesus, help us find it.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 48; 149; 9; 29
1 Kings 19:1-8
Eph. 4:1-16
John 6:1-14

Selected Verses
Ps. 9:10
And those who know your name
            put their trust in you,
for you, O LORD, have not
            forsaken those who seek you.

1 Kings 19:6
[Elijah] looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water.

Eph. 4:7
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ's gift.

John 6:11
The woman said to [Jesus], "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep.  Where do you get that living water?…"

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