We had our Christmas pageant at church this week. I have to say, it was wonderful to celebrate the Nativity, an act of joyful resistance and a declaration of hope into the seeming chaos of all the troubles of the world. The Nativity: Good news for everyone. A child is born. Hope emerges from a womb of darkness, blood and water, the inland sea of birth into the light; light begat light, life begat life. God loves life, so much, that he made a home with us.

I know we live in a dangerous, frightening time. It was when Jesus was born, too. And still, he came and lived among us. God chose life. We can, too.