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.


Those Who Seek You--June 11, 2012


[From June 7, 2004 archive]
Those who know your name put their trust
in you. Even the Canaanite woman did,
and you did not send her away.

You have not forsaken those who seek you.
This does not mean that when we seek you,
we will like what we find. Your truth can be
hard to bear, your will for us difficult to endure.

We see as crooked the way you have fashioned
for us, and we want to make it straight. That is
not our province. Our role is to trust in you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 62; 145; 73; 9
Eccl. 7:1-14
Gal. 4:12-20
Matt. 15:21-28

Selected Verses
Ps. 9:10
And those who know your name put their trust in you,
      for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Eccl. 7:13
Consider the work of God;
      who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Gal. 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Matt. 15:28a
Then Jesus answered [the Canaanite woman], "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish."
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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