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.

A Prayer to the God of My Life--Feb. 22, 2015


By day you command your steadfast love;
at night your song is with us.

You act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness,
for in these things you delight, O God.
You are the source of our life in Christ Jesus,
who became for us wisdom from you,
and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption--
new wine to fill new wineskins.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32
Jer. 9:23-24
1 Cor. 1:18-31
Mark 2:18-22

Selected Verses
Ps. 42:8
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
          and at night his song is with me,
          a prayer to the God of my life.

Jer. 9:24b
…I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

1 Cor. 1:30
He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption…

Mark 2:22
"…And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”  [Jesus to those who compared his disciples with John's]

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