Are you ready for Christmas? Christmas prepping is a practice many of us share. Whether you are writing a wish list or to-do list, dream sheet or balance sheet, cooking, cleaning, or polishing up behavior to eke onto the nice list, before celebrating Christmas, there is work to be done. Perhaps you’ve already decorated your home with twinkling lights or picked out the fluffiest tree. Me? I’ve just started planning menus and hoping we’re not too late to purchase a nine-foot Fraser fir. Last year, an especially scrawny six-footer was the best we could find. Yet this year, the trouble is still finding the time. As we struggle to prepare for the joy to come, there’s expert help to be found. Let us look to a lesson from the mother of all Christmas preppers—Mary. Mary Readying Herself for Christ’s Birth Mary was the first to actively anticipate Christmas Day. Her gentle …