One of the wonderful things about Advent is that it's a journey, because that's truly what Christmas was and is. Jesus didn't just arrive one night with some fanfare. He was hoped for over hundreds of years and in that time expectation built on what both He and his arrival would be like. And it certainly wasn't expected to be a helpless baby, born to lowly, unwed parents, in a town no one cared about. But if you follow the story from the very beginning, you can see the trust God was building in preparation of fulfilling that hope...