On Being a Lector: How to “Prepare Ye the Way...”

Yesterday, I had the privilege of being the second lector and the challenge of reading Col 3:1-21. As a husband and father, I was very aware that I seek “progress, not perfection”. This reading went well, bringing to mind this phrase as a touchstone for preparing to read:

“We read the scripture in its fullness
when it reads us and finds emptiness.”