First Reading
Amos 9:11-15
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.
11In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.
12That they may have the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: says the Lord that does these things.
13Look the days come, says the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth offspring: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.
14And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of them. And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.