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.

Nourish Us, Lord Jesus--Dec. 18, 2021

[This is the first time in at least 17 years

that this particular grouping of readings 

has appeared in the lectionary.]

 

We have no secrets from you, Lord Jesus.

Even if we flee to the wilderness to hide, 

we live in the light of your countenance. 

 

Make a place for us where we are; 

nourish us with your love and light, 

that our deeds may be done in you.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 90; 149; 80; 72

Gen. 3:8-15

Rev. 12:1-10

John 3:16-21

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 90:8

You have set our iniquities before you,
          our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

 

Gen. 3:10

[The man] said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 

 

Rev. 12:6

…and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

 

John 3:21

“…But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”  [Jesus, to Nicodemus]


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