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.

To Be Remembered--July 15, 2012



Joshua proceeded to lead the people across the Jordan;
Jesus proceeded to the synagogue in Capernaum;
Paul and companions proceeded to Jerusalem.
The wind passed over them; they are gone;
but we shall remember them always.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139
Josh. 1:1-18
Acts 21:3-15
Mark 1:21-27

Selected Verses
Ps. 103:16
…for the wind passes over [the grass], and it is gone,
      and its place knows it no more.

Josh. 1:2
"My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. …" [The LORD to Joshua]

Acts 21:5-6a
When our days there [in Tyre] were ended, we left and proceeded on our journey; and all of [the disciples], with wives and children, escorted us outside the city. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed and said farewell to one another.

Mark 1:21
[Jesus and his disciples] went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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