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.

Delivered from Darkness--April 26, 2020


In the darkness, in our low estate,
in the midst of mourning and weeping,
we shall remember your steadfast love, Lord.

And how, dear God, you have delivered us—
we shall remember that, and tell it to others.

Most important of all, we must not forget,
hating removes us from your light,
back into darkness.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 18:1-12
1 John 2:1-17
Mark 16:9-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 136:23
  It is [the LORD] who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever…

Exod. 18:8
Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had beset them on the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. 

1 John 2:9
Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. 

Mark 16:9-10
Now after [Jesus] rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.  She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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