For Your Quiet Meditation

About the Book

These meditations take a verse from one of the lectionary texts not chosen for preaching for a given service and offer a devotional reflection on the verse, often using the context of the entire pericope as described in the lectionary. I try to make them worth the while of my readers, finding a fairly broad readership among the congregations I served through the years.

About the Author

I served as an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from 1976 through 2007 when I retired. In the practice of my ministry, I began to place meditations, called For Your Quiet Meditation, in the weekly bulletins on Palm Sunday, April 14, 1981. I have continued to write them ever since, using them as originally designed whenever I was serving a congregation. At other times, I wrote them and continue to write them as exercises in devotional writing mainly because I find them satisfying to do.

I now live in my retirement in the hills of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, not far from the Ohio River Valley, some miles south of Wheeling, West Virginia. With my wife of forty six years and a collection of pets, I take an easy life on five acres of reasonable solitude.