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.


Searching for You, Jesus--Feb. 29, 2012



Everyone is searching for you, Lord Jesus;
but do we really want to find you?

The bloodthirsty and deceitful, those who
would betray sisters and brothers,
do they want to find you?

And we who do not comprehend what is
truly yours, do we want to find you?

Fill us with your Spirit, that by your
grace we may seek and find you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51
Gen. 37:25-36
1 Cor. 2:1-13
Mark 1:29-45

Selected Verses
Ps. 5:6
You destroy those who speak lies;
      the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful.

Gen. 37:26-27
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed.

1 Cor. 2:11b
So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God.

Mark 1:36-37
And Simon and his companions hunted for [Jesus]. When they found him, they said to him, "Everyone is searching for you."
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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