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.

You Heal the Broken Hearted--March 9, 2022

 

With fear and trembling, Lord Jesus, 

we come before you in weakness.

 

You heal the broken hearted

and bind up their wounds.

 

Have pity on us, we pray.

Stretch out your hand, heal us.

What profit is it not to follow you?

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51

Gen. 37:25-36

1 Cor. 2:1-13

Mark 1:29-45

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted,
          and binds up their wounds.

 

Gen. 37:26

Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?  …”

 

1 Cor. 2:3

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 

 

Mark 1:41

Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched [the leper], and said to him, “I do choose.  Be made clean!”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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