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 You All Are Alive--June 19, 2013


 Your Spirit filled the entire house
where your people were sitting,
and your steadfast love fills the earth.

The boy Samuel grew up in your presence,
and somehow is still in your presence,
for to you all are alive.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33
1 Sam. 2:12-26
Acts 2:1-21
Luke 20:27-40

Selected Verses

Ps. 33:5
The LORD loves righteousness and justice;
          the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

1 Sam. 2:21b
And the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

Acts 2:1-2
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Luke 20:38
"…Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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