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.

This Day Our Hearts Burn, Remembering--April 17, 2022


This day, this day of remembrance, 

when in our low estate you remembered us,

this day throughout our generations we celebrate.

 

This day when you opened your scriptures to us,

through God the only Son, who is close

to the Father’s heart, you made

God known, whose love

endures forever.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117

Exod. 12:1-14

John 1:1-18

Luke 24:13-35

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 136:23

It is [the LORD] who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever…

 

Exod. 12:14

This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

 

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

 

Luke 24:32

[Cleopas and another disciple] said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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