We wish each other a merry Christmas, a joyful Christmas, a peaceful Christmas. But a disruptive Christmas? That might be the last thing we need this December. And yet, whenever God shows up in our world and in our lives, that’s exactly what it is: disruptive. His arrival upends everything. Tonight, we celebrate God’s arrival on earth as a baby. We might assume that a baby’s birth would not have the ability to disrupt anything. And yet, the humble nature of God’s arrival in the flesh disrupts every assumption and where and how God acts in our world. What now divides all of history into a “before” and “after happened not in a palace or a temple but in a lowly manger.