Meditation for Sunday, December 2: The First Sunday of Advent
Psalm 25: 1-9 Jeremiah 33:14-16 Luke 21:25-36 I talked to someone recently who told me that they like living in Cleveland because we get all four seasons. My first reaction, thinking of February, was...
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Psalm 122 Isaiah 2:1-5 Matthew 8:5-13 Advent is a time of expectation and preparation for the arrival of God’s greatest gift to us. For my family it was and is also a time of preparing together for...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Psalm 72:1-8Isaiah 11:1-10Luke 10:21-2 It was on Election Day that I took my first good, long look at the readings on which I had volunteered to write an Advent Meditation. Maybe that is why it...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Psalm 23Isaiah 25:6-9Matthew 15:29-39 “Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me” Like many people, I had to memorize the 23rd psalm at some point while growing up in Sunday school. Once I got over the...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Thursday, December 6, 2012
Psalm 118:19-24 Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21-27 When I first looked at these three readings, it did not take me long to find a common thread: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Friday, December 7, 2012
Psalm 27:1-6,17-18 Isaiah 29:17-24 Matthew 9:27-31 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Oh, I can think of a few....
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Saturday, December 8, 2012
Psalm 147:1-12 Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8 Psalm 147:1-12 Verse one says, “Praise the Lord.” As I am sitting and thinking about what to write and how to write it, I am finding myself...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Sunday, December 9, 2012
Canticle 16 (Luke 1: 68-79) Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4 Luke 3:1-6 The above lesson is filled with joy and hope. You stood in the driveway, silent as a stone. The tears ran down your face, Your...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Monday, December 10, 2012
Psalm 85:8-13Isaiah 35:1-10Luke 5:17-26 One day an angry woman said to me “who are the fools who talk about world peace; humans have been killing each other for longer than we have recorded history”....
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Psalm 96Isaiah 40:1-11Matthew 18:12-14 “Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord all the earth.” Now this is the way to prepare for the new life that is coming into the world with the birth of...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Psalm 103:1-10Isaiah 40:25-31Matthew 11:28-30 In today’s readings, the Bible tells us that God can lighten your load and can make your life better, and in these readings, Jesus is speaking specifically...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Thursday, December 13, 2012
Psalm 145:1-4, 8-13Isaiah 41:13-20Matthew 11:7-15 My thinking and judgments are vertical. I compare this to that: persons and situations are good or bad, higher or lower, darker or lighter, bigger or...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Friday, December 14, 2012
Psalm 1 Isaiah 48:17-19 Matthew 11:16-19 Matthew 11: 16-19 – “But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another, ‘We played flute...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Saturday, December 15, 2012
Psalm 80:1-3, 14-18 Sirach (Ecclesiastics) 48:1-11 Matthew 17:9-13 “Restore us, O God” “Restore the tribes of Jacob.” “Restore all things.” The hope of restoration unites today’s texts. There are two...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Sunday, December 16, 2012
Canticle 9 (Isaiah 12:2-6) Zephaniah 3:14-20 Luke 3:7-18 It was all about singing — and then memories of singing in all those years when you were mute and you couldn’t sing. Christmas presents are...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Monday, December 17, 2012
Psalm 72:1-8 Genesis 49:2, 8-10 Matthew 1:1-7, 17 Proof is in the pudding, so they say. “So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Psalm 72:11-18 Jeremiah 23:5-8 Matthew 1:18-25 Joseph intrigues me. We know so little about him. Why did God choose him to be Jesus’ earthly father? What can we learn from him? We know he was of the...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Psalm 27:1-9 Numbers 11:16-17, 24-29 John 4:31-38 The Magi Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Thursday, December 20, 2012
Psalm 24 Isaiah 7:10-14 Luke 1:26-38 Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be lifted up, O ancient doors! That the King of Glory may come in! (Psalm 24: 7) This is one of my favorite choruses from Handel’s...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Friday, December 21, 2012
Psalm 126 Habakkuk 2:1-4 John 20:24-29 As I travel on this road of life, there are two voices that keep me company and keep me balanced. One is the voice of positivity, optimism, and hope, telling me...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Saturday, December 22, 2012
Psalm 15 Exodus 19:3-8 Matthew 16:24-27 “Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?” (Psalm 15) “Thus you shall say to … the Israelites: how I bore you on eagles’ wings...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Sunday, December 23, 2012
Psalm 80:1-7 Micah 5:2-5a Luke 1:39-45 (46-55) Singing the Magnificat In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country. (Luke 1:39) Advent is a season of waiting:...
View ArticleAdvent Meditation for Monday, December 24, 2012
Psalm 89:1-4, 19-29 2 Samuel 7:1-16 Luke 1: 67-79 The world waits for a child. Darkness from inside our souls and from the worlds woes laps at what little light we have. Our bated breath trembles on...
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