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 Can We Go from Your Spirit?--Oct. 19, 2018


Ever Present God,
you will not leave us;
human help may be fickle,
or may not be able to go with us
in our travels, but always we have you.
And you have given us your Son Jesus,
with the admonition: Listen to him.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 130; 148; 32; 139
Hosea 13:9-16
Acts 28:1-16
Luke 9:28-36

Selected Verses
Ps. 139:9-10
If I take the wings of the morning
          and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
          and your right hand shall hold me fast.

Hosea 13:10a
Where now is your king, that he may save you?  [The LORD, speaking through the prophet to Israel]

Acts 28:6
[The natives of Malta] were expecting [Paul] to swell up or drop dead, but after they had waited a long time and saw that nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god. 

Luke 9:35
Then from the cloud came a voice that said [to Peter, John, and James], "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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