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 Forget…Remind Us—Dec. 14, 2010

In your zeal you will
establish your kingdom.
If our soul waits for you,
you will be help and shield;
and our heart will be glad in you
because we trust in your holy name.

All these things we know already,
but we keep forgetting. Remind
us, and establish us in the truth
you have given; then those
who see us may know—
we’ve been with you.

Lectionary Readings
Psalms 33, 146, 85, 94
Isaiah 9:2-7
2 Peter 1:12-21
Luke 22:54-69

Selected Verses
Psalm 33:20-21
Our soul waits for the LORD;
      he is our help and shield.
Our heart is glad in him,
      because we trust in his holy name.

Isaiah 9:7d
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

2 Peter 1:12
Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things, though you know them already and are established in the truth that has come to you.

Luke 22:56
Then a servant–girl, seeing [Peter] in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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