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.


From the First Morning, the Word--Jan. 9, 2012



From the morning of the first day,
the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

The Word sustains all things--
God, let your word sustain
me in the morning.

When you hear my voice,
let me hear your Word.

As a husband and wife are one flesh,
let your Word live in me.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29
Gen. 2:4-25
Heb. 1:1-14
John 1:1-18

Selected Verses
Ps. 5:3
O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice;
      in the morning I plead my case to you, and watch.

Gen. 2:23
Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken."

Heb. 1:3a
[The Son] is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word.

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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