Since the roaring 1920’s, our culture has been selling us the narrative that happiness equals health, wealth, and influence. According to our age of consumerism, the elite “1%” are the truly happy ones. If this is true, what about the sick, the poor, and the marginalized? The Good News of Advent turns everything upside down. Blessed are the poor, the weak, and the insignificant.. because God came as a poor, seemingly insignificant Jewish baby who willingly embraced obscurity and, ultimately, the most shameful death imaginable. Advent tells the true story of happiness: the Way of the Cross is the Way to Joy. What does this mean for followers of Jesus?