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 David, to Dance with All Our Might--Aug. 4, 2013


 If only we are willing to come to you and see,
Lord Jesus, we will discover that, indeed,
someone good came out of Nazareth.  

Someone so good that we will want to dance
with all our might--dance because we'll know
that your goodness and mercy will follow us
all our days; dance because we'll know
whether we live, or whether we die,
our dance will be with you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 108; 150; 66; 23
2 Sam. 6:12-23
Rom. 14:7-12
John 1:43-51

Selected Verses

Ps. 23:6 
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
          all the days of my life,
 and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
          my whole life long.

2 Sam. 6:14
David danced before the LORD with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.

Rom. 14:8
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

John 1:46
Nathanael said to [Philip], “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”  Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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