The morning in Tekoa hums with a quiet that feels almost electric. We walk beside Amos as bread warms the air and fig leaves shiver, and a village leans in to hear a hard mercy. What begins as a simple market day turns into a reckoning with empty rituals, unequal scales, and the kind of comfort that forgets the poor. When the elders gather under a fig tree, the prophet speaks plainly: true worship is more than offerings; it is justice at the gate and compassion at the table.

As the crowd tightens, questions rise from every corner—mothers, merchants, artisans. Is God’s judgment the end, or the beginning of a return? Amos answers with the spine and softness of Scripture: seek the Lord and live; let justice roll down like waters. Soldiers from Samaria arrive, and the square becomes a crossroads where power meets prophecy. We watch fear shrink and courage grow as a mother asks whether God hears a debtor’s cry and as the prophet insists that repentance, not rebellion, restores peace. The tension breaks not with a shout, but with rain—judgment and mercy sharing the same sky.

We then sit with the reading of Amos 4, hearing the repeated refrain that exposes our diversions and draws us back: yet you did not return to me. The words land with weight and grace, naming droughts, blight, and loss as wake-up calls, not weapons. When the last line urges us to prepare to meet our God, the tone is invitation, not doom. People kneel, neighbors seek repair, and even the soldiers’ armor seems to quiet.

Walking out of Tekoa, we carry more than a story—we carry a map. Open your gates to the stranger. Keep fair scales. Let your worship breathe as mercy. If some hearts refuse, love speaks still, because God bears the grief first and keeps calling us home. Join us for a contemplative journey through vivid storytelling and a faithful reading of Amos 4, and let the rain of justice and the stream of righteousness reshape how you pray, spend, and serve.

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