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.


All Holy to You--Nov. 4, 2011



Great and amazing are your deeds,
Lord God the Almighty.

In overflowing abundance you supply our needs,
but what you give us we must share with the crowds;
we do it as a freewill offering to you.

You desire truth in the inward being;
teach us wisdom in our secret heart
to see all humanity as holy to you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65
Ezra 7:27-28; 8:21-36
Rev. 15:1-8
Matt. 14:13-21

Selected Verses
Ps. 51:6
You desire truth in the inward being;
      therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Ezra 8:28
And I said to [the twelve priests], "You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your ancestors. …"

Rev. 15:3a-b
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
      "Great and amazing are your deeds,
          Lord God the Almighty! …"

Matt. 14:19b
Taking the five loaves and the two fish, [Jesus] looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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