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.


Gone Astray--June 21, 2012



We teach others, but cannot teach ourselves.
You speak through others, and we envy them.

You search for the one sheep that went astray;
come find us; we have no good apart from you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
Numb. 12:1-16
Rom. 2:12-24
Matt. 18:10-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 16:2
I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
      I have no good apart from you.”

Numb. 12:2
…and [Miriam and Aaron] said, "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it.

Rom. 2:21a
…you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself?

Matt. 18:12
"…What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? …" [Jesus to his disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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