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.

A Place for Us--April 24, 2022


O God of steadfast love, God of light,

in whom there is no darkness at all,

wherever we go, whatever we do,

on our left, and on our right,

we know we always have 

you present with us.

 

You prepare a place for us,

and your faithfulness

endures forever.

 

May we be faithful, too.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117

Exod. 14:5-22

1 John 1:1-7

John 14:1-7

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 117:2

For great is his steadfast love toward us, 
          and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. 

 

Exod. 14:22

The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

 

1 John 1:5

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

 

John 14:3

“…And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.  …”  [Jesus, to his eleven disciples]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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