First Reading
Isaiah 40:25-31
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.
25And to whom have you likened me, or made me equal, says the Holy One?
26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calls them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.
27Why sayest you, OH Jacob, and speakest, OH Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28Know you not, or have you not heard? the Lord is the eternal God, who has created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor work, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom.
29It is he that gives strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not.
30Youths shall faint, and work, and young men shall fall by infirmity.
31But those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.