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Christmas, no, make that all of life, comes with a great big platter of expectations.  We expect that Christmas will mean gifts, cheer and goodwill.  In life, we expect that parents will love and protect children, marriage covenants will be kept and that doing the right thing will bring the right results.  But this is not always reality.  Sadly, Christmas can make the brokenness in our lives searingly more painful; like the young mother in the troubled marriage who realized one Christmas morning, after all the gifts under the tree had been opened, that there were no gifts for her.  Our hurts, our brokenness, feel like an extra heavy load to carry at this time.