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.

The World Is Your Family--Jan. 11, 2018


Sovereign God, you are the builder of all things;
you have created us to live together in families.
You have given us your Son, that through him.
all may live together as your family.

We come to him, and we see;
we pour out our hearts to him;
at all times we trust in him;
he is a refuge to us.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
Gen. 4:17-26
Heb. 3:1-11
John 1:43-51

Selected Verses
Ps. 62:8
Trust in him at all times, O people;
          pour out your heart before him;
          God is a refuge for us.      Selah

Gen. 4:25-26a
Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him."  To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh.

Heb. 3:4
(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 

John 1:46
Nathanael said to [Philip], "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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