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.

Comfort in Your Steadfast Love--March 31, 2014


Jesus, you astound us, for you do everything well.
May your steadfast love become our comfort.
Teach us to seek not our own advantage,
but that of the other, so we may be
fruitful boughs by a spring.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Gen. 49:1-28
1 Cor. 10:14-11:1
Mark 7:24-37

Selected Verses
Ps. 119:76
Let your steadfast love become my comfort
          according to your promise to your servant. 

Gen. 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. 

1 Cor. 10:24
Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other. 

Mark 7:37
[Those who saw Jesus cure the deaf man] were astounded beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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