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.

Do I Want to Be Made Well?--Feb. 27, 2013


 You heal the brokenhearted
and bind up their wounds.

Do I want to return to you;
do I want to be made well?

Want with my whole heart?
Or is it sham and pretense?

O God, let me never despise
the riches of your kindness,
forbearance, and patience.


Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51
Jer. 3:6-18
Rom. 1:26-2:11
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses

Ps. 147:3
[God] heals the brokenhearted,
          and binds up their wounds.

Jer. 3:10
Yet for all this [Israel's] false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the LORD.

Rom. 2:4a
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience?

John 5:6
When Jesus saw [a man who had been ill for thirty-eight years] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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