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.

Help Us Protect Our Families--March 10, 2020


We want to protect our families,
especially our children.
At times we try too hard at this,
we are over-protective.

Or we work too hard to teach them,
and alienate them instead.
Lord, lead us to a proper balance
between not caring enough
and caring too much.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 34; 146; 25; 91
Gen. 42:1-17
1 Cor. 5:1-8
Mark 3:19b-35

Selected Verses
Ps. 34:11, 14
Come, O children, listen to me;
          I will teach you the fear of the LORD. …
Depart from evil, and do good;
          seek peace, and pursue it.

Gen. 42:4
But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him. 

1 Cor. 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father's wife.

Mark 3:20-21
…and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat.  When [Jesus’] family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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