First Reading
Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17
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.
11For thus says the Lord God: Look I myself will seek my sheep, and will visit them.
12As the shepherd visiteth his hock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
15I will feed my sheep$1 and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord God.
16I will seek that which was lost: and that which was driven away, I will bring again: and I will bind up that which was broken, and I will strengthen that which was weak, and that which was fat and strong I will preserve: and I will feed them in judgment.
17And as for you, OH my flocks, thus says the Lord God: Look I judge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of he goats.