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.

From You and through You and to You--Mar. 28, 2015


From you and through you and to you
are all things; to you be the glory forever.

You have redeemed us, O Lord, faithful God,
and into your hand we commit our spirit.
Put your law within us, write it on our
hearts, and unbind us from all that
keeps us from doing your will.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Jer. 31:27-34
Rom. 11:25-36
John 11:28-44

Selected Verses
Ps. 31:5
 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
          you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

Jer. 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Rom. 11:36
For from [God] and through him and to him are all things.  To him be the glory forever. Amen.

John 11:44
The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth.  Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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