Near the heart of the Christmas / Advent Story is the expectation that God is going to offer a gift. The head-fake in this Bible story story is that, when those waiting come up on and/or are given that gift, it’s just a baby. And I know folks have surrounded Jesus’ birth with all kinds of magic imagery, sparkles and theme music since then. But for people who had been waiting for some kind of momentous, earth-shattering socio-cultural and…
