Have you ever put on a pair of pants, reached in the pocket and found cash? This just happened to Gina the other day; apparently she laundered some money ;-) It was kind of like Christmas discovering twenty bucks that way. Except that as I thought about it I realized that it was more like Easter, since on Christmas you generally know where to look to find the present, but on Easter you have to search for the hidden eggs (granted, what is under the tree is more exciting than an egg most of the time, but work with me here).
At the risk of beating a long dead horse, Advent is all about searching and finding that the gift is other than what we expect. We can approach the task of preparation with dread, or we can search with the joyful expectation that at any moment we might find a great surprise. We may not know exactly what the gift will be that we find, but we know that we will like it and not only will it bring us joy, it will be just what we always wanted--even if we didn't know what it was that we wanted! The great gift of finding Christ in Christmas is that we find the answer to all our needs. That's a whole lot more than a twenty-dollar bill turning up in a pocket!
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