Tidings of comfort and joy- There are few things more “Christmasy” than that. Yet when we read the actual Christmas story, there is almost no comfort and joy can be hard to find. So how did these two ideas become so deeply associated with Christmas? After all, in a broken world, isn’t it dismissive and calloused to sing about “comfort and joy” or “joy to the world?” To answer that question, you have to know that the Christmas story is just one chapter in a much bigger story.