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Christmas is just the beginning    

“This is no time for a child to be born ... [yet] love still takes the risk.” Teri McDowell Ott reflects on this Advent quote by poet Madeleine L’Engle.

One of my neighbors, who lives on a corner lot, is big into decorating her yard. For every season she sets up elaborate scenes.

Fall includes hay bales, pumpkins, a friendly scarecrow. Spring is potted flowering plants and large cut-outs of butterflies. And every season includes a new set of decorative pillows for the rocking chairs on her front porch.

But Christmas is her finest moment. She and her husband string lights in every tree,...

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