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Most people would prefer a Christmas without surprises, a Christmas where everything goes according to plan. Usually when our expectations are not met, the results are disappointing. And yet, everything about the first Christmas was the opposite of what anyone would have expected. Today we see how that’s true as we ponder the miracle and mystery of the incarnation. In order that we might know him, God didn’t shout down from heaven. He came down from heaven. The second person of the Trinity took on human flesh and became one of us. Though this is a mystery, it is also something to marvel at. In Jesus, humanity can say: “Here is our God!”