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.


Forever Steadfast Love--April 22, 2012



You have remembered us in our low estate
and delivered your people out of slavery,
for your steadfast love endures forever.

Your new commandments are like the old;
we have heard them from the beginning,
for your steadfast love endures forever.

In a time of great mourning and weeping,
you sent a woman bearing good news;
your steadfast love endures forever.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 18:1-12
1 John 2:7-17
Mark 16:9-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 136:23
It is [the LORD] who remembered us in our low estate,
      for his steadfast love endures forever…

Exod. 18:8
Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had beset them on the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

1 John 2:7
Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard.

Mark 16:9-20
[Mary Magdalene] went out and told those who had been with [Jesus], while they were mourning and weeping.

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