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.

Celebrate and Remember--April 12, 2020


Let everything that breathes praise you today, O God.
Today is a day that past generations have remembered,
a day that will be celebrated by generations to come.

Although we have been foolish, slow of heart to believe,
we remember the Word became flesh and lived among us;
we remember how Christ suffered, that this is the day
he entered into his glory, the glory as of a father’s
only son, full of grace and truth.  God help us
always remember and praise your name.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 12:1-14
John 1:1-18
Luke 24:13-35

Selected Verses
Ps. 150:6
Let everything that breathes praise the LORD!
     Praise the LORD!

Exod. 12:14
This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.  You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. 

Luke 24:25-26
Then [the Risen Jesus] said to [Cleopas and his friend], “Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!  Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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