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.

Good Shepherd, Lead Us--May 24, 2014


To enter your kingdom we must do your will.
Sometimes it is your will that we should work;
at other times we must refrain from working.
Good Shepherd, lead us in right paths
for your name's sake.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Lev. 23:23-44
2 Thess. 3:1-18
Matt. 7:13-21

Selected Verses
Ps. 23:3b
[The LORD] leads me in right paths
          for his name’s sake. 

Lev. 23:39
Now, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the festival of the LORD, lasting seven days; a complete rest on the first day, and a complete rest on the eighth day. 

2 Thess. 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. 

Matt. 7:21
"…Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.  …"  [Jesus to the crowd on the mountain]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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