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.

March 29, 2008

I. Readings
Psalms 23, 92, 114
Exodus 13:17-14:4
2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10
Mark 12:18-27

II. Selections
Psalm 23:1
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Exodus 13:22
Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

2 Corinthians 4:18
...because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Mark 12:27
" ...He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong." [ Jesus to the Sadducees]

III. Meditation: In front of your people

O living God, and God of the living,
with you as our shepherd, we shall not want.

O eternal God, we cannot see you,
but you are more real than what we can see.

O ever-present God-with us by day,
with us by night-stay in front of your people.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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