First Reading
2 Timothy 1:1-8
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus.
2To Timothy my dearly beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
3I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that without ceasing, I have a remembrance of you in my prayers, night and day.
4Desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be satisfied with joy,
5Calling to mind that faith which is in you unfeigned, which also dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and I am certain that in you also.
6For which cause I admonish you, that you stir up the grace of God which is in you, by the imposition of my hands.
7For God has not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.
8Be not you therefore ashamed of the teaching of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but work with the gospel, according to the power of God,