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 Share the Good News--May 4, 2014


We can tell how much you have done for us, O God--
can recite how you delivered us from hardships--
we can write beautiful metaphors full of truth
about you and about all who are mortal;
yet not all who hear us will accept it.
Even if the floods lifted up their
voices to tell the Good News,
not everyone would believe it.
Still, how can we fail to share it?

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 18:1-12
1 John 2:7-17
Mark 16:9-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 93:3
The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
          the floods have lifted up their voice;
          the floods lift up their roaring. 

Exod. 18:8
Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had beset them on the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. 

1 John 2:8
Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

Mark 16:10
[Mary Magdalene] went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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