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.


The One Who Made Me--Dec. 6, 2011



The One who made me
watches over me
and watches me.

The One who made me
tells me to love my neighbor
even as I love myself.

The One who made me
calls me to go to the people
and prophesy.

The One who made me
knows the pain of persecution
and the need for patient endurance.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 33; 146; 85; 94
Amos 7:10-17
Rev. 1:9-16
Matt. 22:34-46

Selected Verses
Ps. 33:14-15
From where he sits enthroned he watches
      all the inhabitants of the earth—
he who fashions the hearts of them all,
     and observes all their deeds.

Amos 7:14-15
Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' …"

Rev. 1:9
I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Matt. 22:39
"…and a second is like [the greatest commandment]: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' …" [Jesus in reply to the Pharisees' question]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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