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.

Like the Women Who Followed Jesus--Aug. 2, 2012



O God, you know everyone's heart.
I am your servant, child of your serving girl.

I would not have gone with you if my mother
had not been with you already, and her mother as well.

Thank you for women like the ones who followed Jesus,
who provided for him, and who stayed with him to the very end.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116
Judges 4:4-23
Acts 1:15-26
Matt. 27:55-66

Selected Verses
Ps. 116:16
O LORD, I am your servant;
      I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
      You have loosed my bonds.

Judges 4:8
Barak said to [the prophetess Deborah], "If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go."

Acts 1:24a
Then [the eleven apostles] prayed and said, "Lord, you know everyone's heart. …"

Matt. 27:55
Many women were also [at the crucifixion], looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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