Advent daybook, 18: he will turn the hearts of fathers to children and children to fathers

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

(see all Advent daybook posts from 2014 here)

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look

Eric Gweah, 25, grieves as he watches members of a Red Cross burial team remove the body of his father, a suspected Ebola victim, in Monrovia, Liberia.

Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times/Redux

source

A collection of Scriptural prayers for the Ebola crisis can be found here.

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read

Malachi 3:16-4:6: he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers

{all readings for the day: Psalm 125; Malachi 3:16-4:6; Mark 9:9-13}

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pray  

Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory, now and for ever. Amen. (source)

Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Amen. 

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listen

Ah Holy Jesus

Sufjan Stevens

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do

take a walk in the lit night

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