I've seen some nice gift wrapping in my day. You know the one's I'm talking about. You hate to open it because it looks so picture perfect. Then you do and you find a nice package of socks. What a dud. Then you get some of those packages that are wrapped with such carelessness that you are almost embarrassed to pick it up from under the tree. But, once you open it, you find a very nice and thoughtful gift that brightens your day. 

It's a message that happens each year as we celebrate Christmas. The baby Jesus did not look like a wonderful gift. The son of an unwed mother, from a family that couldn't even find adequate shelter for the baby's birth. Yet that gift is one far better than anything that could have been beautifully wrapped. For it cam accompanied with love and from the one who knew exactly what we needed. Thank you God for that gift.