What The First Christmas Teaches Us About Expectations What are you expecting for Christmas? That’s one of those questions that’s pregnant with possibilities. Kids hear the question and think about gifts. Parents, whose grown up kids live far away, think about the precious time they’ll spend with family. A store owner expects to sell all that extra inventory she stocked up on for the season. Let’s go back in time and look at the first Christmas. Of course Mary and Joseph and all the other characters in the story didn’t know it was Christmas. It was just life. So even ...