First Reading
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
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.
2Emptiness of empty things, said Ecclesiastes emptiness of empty things, and all is emptiness.
3What has a man more of all his work, that he takes under the sun?
4One generation passeth away, and another generation comes: but the earth stands forever.
5The sun rises, and goes down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,
6Makes his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goes forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.
7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea does not overflow: to the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.
8All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, neither is the ear satisfied with hearing.
9What is it that has been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that has been done? the same that shall be done.
10Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Look this is new: for it has already gone before in the ages that were before us.
11There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.