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.

For Nepal--May 1, 2015


Your steadfast love lasts forever,
God; it knows no boundaries
of place or race or class.
We ask for your help.
Be with mothers who weep
for children killed by earthquake.
Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138
Jer. 31:15-22
Col. 3:1-11
Luke 7:1-17

Selected Verses
Ps. 138:8
 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
          your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
          Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Jer. 31:15b
Rachel is weeping for her children;
          she refuses to be comforted for her children,
          because they are no more. 

Col. 3:11
In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!

Luke 7:9
When Jesus heard [what the centurion had said] he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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