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.

Though We Hide Ourselves from You--Jan. 12, 2016


We hide ourselves from you and say we do not know you,
yet your signs and wonders attest to your presence with us.
When at last our soul thirsts for you
and we seek to find you, we learn
that you have been there all the time.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133
Gen. 3:1-24
Heb. 2:1-10
John 1:19-28

Selected Verses
Ps. 42:2
My soul thirsts for God,
          for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
          the face of God? 

Gen. 3:8
[The man and the woman] heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 

Heb. 2:4
…while God added his testimony by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, distributed according to his will.

John 1:26
John answered [the Pharisees], "I baptize with water.  Among you stands one whom you do not know…"
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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