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.

All who Need Your Good News--May 2, 2015


God the Father, we give thanks to you--
though we walk through the darkest valley,
you satisfy the weary and replenish the faint.

In the name of the Lord Jesus we pray for
the blind, the lame, the deaf, the diseased,
the poor--all who need your good news.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Jer. 31:23-25
Col. 3:12-17
Luke 7:18-35

Selected Verses
Ps. 23:4  
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, 
          I fear no evil; 
for you are with me; 
          your rod and your staff — 
          they comfort me.

Jer. 31:25
I will satisfy the weary,
          and all who are faint I will replenish.

Col. 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Luke 7:22
And [Jesus] answered [John's disciples], “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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