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.


Stewards of Your Mysteries--March 3, 2012



We bless your name, Lord Jesus, for you have
wondrously shown your steadfast love to us.

When our spirit is troubled, when we
are beset like a city under siege,

when our advisers and academicians
can find no solutions to our problems,

grant us courage and humility to
stretch out our hand to you for healing.

Forgive our hardness of heart that we may
be your servants, stewards of your mysteries.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Gen. 41:1-13
1 Cor. 4:1-7
Mark 2:23-3:6

Selected Verses
Ps. 31:21
Blessed be the LORD,
      for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
      when I was beset as a city under siege.

Gen. 41:8
In the morning [Pharaoh's] spirit was troubled; so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

1 Cor. 4:1
Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

Mark 3:5
[Jesus] looked around at [the Pharisees] with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand. He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

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