Last night, as I was headed to bed, I began turning off lights. The last thing to be turned off was the Christmas tree. I stood and admired it a bit. I do so love my “old” Christmas tree. Remember that I hauled it out of the attic after throwing out the newer, larger, pre-lit tree. I had my doubts whether the old one would work out as well with my high ceilings. But, as I gazed at it last night, the entire room dark save for the lights, I was struck by its beauty.
The scene was very serene, and it reminded me, for some strange reason, of the Advent calendar that my mom had when I was a youngster.
I’m not sure what the calendar was made of…probably heavy paper. We’re talking the 70’s here. Things were not uber-fancy. The calendar had an old-fashioned feel to it though – even though the times (at the time) was modern, so to speak. Something kind of like this…
I loved opening those little windows each day. Some of the numbers were hard to find, but the pictures behind the flaps were worth the hunt.
Those windows contributed to my growing anticipation of Christmas Day.
It reminds me of the anticipation that the Jews must have felt after being promised, for generations, a Savior.
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