Advent daybook, 23: He picks up the poor from out of the dirt

My Advent daybook for these 24 days of waiting. Join me, won't you? (see previous Advent daybook 2015 posts here)

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look

A young boy takes a break from his work in this dump collecting scraps to hold his baby sister (Guatemala), Glen Cooper - source

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read

Psalm 113:Who can compare with GOD, our God, so majestically enthroned, surveying his magnificent heavens and earth? He picks up the poor from out of the dirt, rescues the wretched who've been thrown out with the trash, seats them among the honored guests, a place of honor among the brightest and best. 

all readings for the day: Psalm 113; Isaiah 42:14-21; Luke 1:5-25

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pray

Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily 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)

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listen

Canticle of the Turning, Buddy Greene

(Also, feel free to listen with me to my ever-evolving Advent playlist or a growing Advent Orchestral/Choral playlist on Spotify.)

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watch & give

Click here to visit Potter's House gift catalog to help Treasured men, women and children living in the Guatemala City dump communities receive a variety of good gifts (meals, education, micro enterprise training, and more).  

We love Potter's House, and commend their work to you this Advent.

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(see all Advent daybook posts from 2014 here)