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.


Wait, Hope, Follow--April 6, 2012



We wait, we wait, and we hope.
In your word, we hope,
for you will not reject forever.

We hope, and we set all our hope
on the grace of Jesus Christ.
We wait to follow where he has gone.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Lam. 3:1-9; 19-33
1 Peter 1:10-20
John 13:36-38

Selected Verses
Ps. 130:5
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
      and in his word I hope…

Lam. 3:31-33
For the Lord will not reject forever.

1 Peter 1:13b
… set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.

John 13:36
Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow afterward."
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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