Advent daybook, 25: In those days...all the world should be registered

My Advent daybook for these 24 days of waiting. Join me, won't you?

(see all Advent daybook posts from 2014 here)

look

Immigrant children, Brownsville, TX (06/2014) The Associated Press (source)

Click play button embedded in the image for video from Massachusetts Governor Patrick's 

moving speech about housing immigrant children (summer 2014)

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read

Luke 2:1-7, 8-20: In those days...all the world should be registered

{all readings for the day: Isaiah 62:6-12; Psalm 97; Titus 3:4-7; Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20}

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pray

Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your holy visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.(source)

Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Amen.

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listen

Poor Little Jesus, Odetta

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do

Wait and Wonder

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