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.

That Christ May Be Formed in Me--June 9, 2014


I do not deserve bread from your table;
satisfy me with the crumbs that fall--
I am like a brute beast toward you.

Take away my spiritual pride;
replace it with spiritual patience,
so that Christ may be formed in me.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 62; 145; 73; 9
Eccl. 7:1-14
Gal. 4:12-20
Matt. 15:21-28

Selected Verses
Ps. 73:22
 I was stupid and ignorant;
         I was like a brute beast toward you. 

Eccl. 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; the patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.

Gal. 4:19
My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you…

Matt. 15:27
[The Canaanite woman] said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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