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.

If We Could Sit at Your Feet Like Mary--May 21, 2021


If we could sit at your feet, Jesus, and listen to you, 

then you would teach us; we would all know you.

 

We would understand that there are boundaries

which cannot be passed, and that one of them

is not to foul the earth for others yet to come.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Ezek. 34:17-31

Heb. 8:1-13

Luke 10:38-42

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 148:6

He established them forever and ever;
          he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.

 

Ezek. 34:18

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture?  When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet? 

 

Heb. 8:11

“…And they shall not teach one another or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord,’
     for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.  …”  

 

Luke 10:39

[Martha] had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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