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.

Broken Bread, Seed for Sowing--March 29, 2018


For your broken body, we weep;
we shed our tears, share the broken bread.
But as our tears stream down,
remind us that those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Lam. 2:10-18
1 Cor. 10:14-17, 11:27-32
Mark 14:12-25

Selected Verses
Ps. 126:6
Those who go out weeping,
          bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
          carrying their sheaves.

Lam. 2:18
Cry aloud to the Lord!  O wall of daughter Zion!  Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night!  Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

1 Cor. 10:16b
The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? 

Mark 14:22
While they were eating, [Jesus] took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to [his disciples], and said, "Take; this is my body." 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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