CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

By now your family is a third of the way through your Advent calendar. Little cardstock doors or windows are opened to reveal various tokens: chocolates, Christmas images, or maybe Biblical verses that tell the story of the birth of Jesus. All are a part of a custom that began in earnest by a little boy in Germany in the 19th century. The nonpaper version of Advent began much longer a...

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