Have you ever noticed, have you ever really contemplated our infinite capacity to complicate things? It’s like we have a built-in aversion to the simple. We take the simplest situation and we make it a complicated affair. We build molehills into mountains. Before we examine a question, we wrap it in confusion. Really though, when you get the heart of it, the great experiences of life, even the great insights, have a way of turning out to be very simple.

At the heart of it, Christmas is a very simple thing. Look at the Christmas story. How beautiful in its simplicity. It tells of the marvelous, universal experience which everyone can recognize. A young couple expecting their first baby. The father is anxious and wants the best for his wife. You can feel his nervousness as he knocks anxious…