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.

You Heal and Make Well--May 19, 2018



We pray in the Spirit,
and you heal and make well;
you put a new spirit within us,
removing our heart of stone,
giving a heart of flesh,
restoring the soul.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Ezek. 36:22-27
Eph. 6:1-24
Matt. 9:18-26

Selected Verses
Ps. 23:2-3a
            [The LORD] makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
                  he restores my soul. 

Ezek. 36:26
A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.  [The LORD speaking through the prophet to Israel]

Eph. 6:18a
Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. 

Matt. 9:20
Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind [Jesus] and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well." 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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