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.


On My Honor--March 22, 2012



You have done great things for us.
Help us rejoice in them and honor you.

Human honor is fickle. The new king in Egypt
despised those whom the former king had esteemed.

No sooner had Peter expressed his honor for Jesus
than he took him aside and rebuked him.

Your intention, though, is that we
honor all the members of your body,

caring for all as we give our real honor
to you, the one who binds us all together.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Exod. 1:6-22
1 Cor. 12:12-26
Mark 8:27-9:1

Selected Verses
Ps. 126:3
The LORD has done great things for us,
      and we rejoiced.

Exod. 1:8
Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

1 Cor. 12:24b-25
But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.

Mark 8:31-32
[Jesus] said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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