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 Spirit, or Our Bickering?--Feb. 27, 2012



Jealous of one another and with quarrels among us,
we find ourselves in the wilderness, miserable.
Our eyes waste away because of grief,
grow weak because of our foes.
Did your Spirit drive us here,
or was it our bickering?

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Gen. 37:1-11
1 Cor. 1:1-19
Mark 1:1-13

Selected Verses
Ps. 6:7
My eyes waste away because of grief;
      they grow weak because of all my foes.

Gen. 37:11
So [Joseph's] brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

1 Cor. 1:11
For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.

Mark 1:12
And the Spirit immediately drove [Jesus] out into the wilderness.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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