Week of hope
Notes of Hope Hope Moran Notes of Hope Hope Moran

Week of hope

Could I be an Advent snob?  An Advent purist?  And Advent idealist?  As I looked forward to the first day of Advent, today, I looked at my 3 Advent calendars:  one with various, yummy types of tea; one with scratch off days, and one with chocolate behind each window.  I scratched off the first day to realize, to my chagrin, that I had been deceived! 

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Stirrings of Anticipation

At many homes - on the grass and by the curbs - I saw newspapers.  Some were delivered that day and some had obviously been there for a long time.  I thought of the people who wrote the articles in the papers - their feelings of anticipation as people read what they wrote.  

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