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.

Filled with the Fragrance of Love--Sept. 15, 2014


Generation after generation celebrates your abundant
goodness and sings aloud of your righteousness, O God.
Compared to you, we are of small account--what can we do?
We can commend one another to the grace of the Lord,
that the house may be filled with the fragrance of love.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 135; 145; 97; 112
Job 40:1-24
Acts 15:36-16:5
John 11:55-12:8

Selected Verses
Ps. 145:7
[Generations] shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness,
          and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Job 40:3-4a
Then Job answered the LORD: "See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?

Acts 15:40
But Paul chose Silas and set out, the believers commending him to the grace of the Lord. 

John 12:3
Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair.  The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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