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.

Every Day a New Creation--June 11, 2022

[From June 14, 2014 archive]

 

The days of our life are soon gone, 

O God, and we fly away; but for 

you every day is a new creation. 

 

On one mountain you spoke to Moses 

about his lineage; on another mountain 

centuries later you told Peter, James, and 

John to listen to your Beloved.  Before our 

days have flown, may we listen to him, too.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90

Num. 3:1-13

Gal. 6:11-18

Matt. 17:1-13

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 90:10 

The days of our life are seventy years, 
          or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; 
even then their span is only toil and trouble; 
          they are soon gone, and we fly away. 

 

Num. 3:1 

This is the lineage of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 

 

Gal. 6:15 

For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything! 

 

Matt. 17:5 

While [Peter] was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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