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.


Your Creative Spirit--Feb. 11, 2012



You send forth your Spirit and creation happens.
Creation did not end with the Genesis stories;

your creative power continues to make new;
you renew the face of the ground and your people.

Whoever receives your creative Spirit hears your words.
It is not for us to judge who has heard them and who has not.

May we never put a stumbling block or hindrance
in the way of one to whom you have spoken.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 104; 149; 138; 98
Gen. 29:1-20
Rom. 4:1-23
John 8:47-59

Selected Verses
Ps. 104:30
When you send forth your spirit, they are created;
      and you renew the face of the ground.

Gen. 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Rom. 4:13
Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of another.

John 8:47
"Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God." [Jesus to those who were questioning his authority]

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