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.


Not as You See--July 6,2011

We do not see as you see; even those who see you in visions
often describe your visitation in mystical language.

Their eyes are kept from recognizing you.
We do not see you, but we worship you in holy splendor.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 96; 147:7-11; 132; 134
1 Sam. 16:1-13
Acts 10:1-16
Luke 24:13-35

Selected Verses
Ps. 96:9
Worship the LORD in holy splendor;
      tremble before him, all the earth.

1 Sam. 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on [Eliab's] appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

Acts 10:11
[Peter] saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners.

Luke 24:15-16
While [two disciples on the road to Emmaus] were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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