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 Will Be Glad and Exult--June 1, 2011


O God Most High, we will be glad and exult in you.

We will ask for what we need and trust you to provide.
We will confess our sins and pray for one another.
We will work to achieve a more humane society.

In all these things, we will sing your praise.


Lectionary Readings
Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118
Deut. 19:1-7
James 5:13-18
Luke 12:22-31

Selected Verses
Ps. 9:2
I will be glad and exult in you;
      I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Deut. 19:6-7
But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before. Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.

James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

Luke 12:29
“…And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. …” [Jesus to his disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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