God Turns Up In All the Wrong Places at Christmas It’s easy to miss how strange God’s ‘perfect timing’ is in the nativity story. KRISH KANDIAH | DECEMBER 20, 2017 My notes: I was deeply moved when I read this excerpt published in Christianity Today. I want to share this excerpt with as many people I know especially to day December 25, 2017. Krish Kandiah has reminded me of the essential of Christmas...I mmanuel , God with us... This essay is adapted from his latest book, God Is Stranger: Finding God in Unexpected Places (InterVarsity Press). R ecently, at a Christian men’s breakfast that I wasn’t excited about attending, I was surprised to make an unlikely friend in an elderly man named John. At the age of seven, John had been evacuated on the Kinder transport program just before the Holocaust began in Germany. John’s parents were among the 6 million people living in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught on the wrong side of Hitler’s fanaticism. Seventy-six ye