So much about life and truth and Christmas is determined by your perspective.

In the world’s eyes…

• a peasant girl, probably raped by Roman soldiers
• a poor carpenter, dumb enough to believe her story about an angel
• a slave registering his family with the state for purposes of taxation
• an insignificant village with little to offer the empire
• a family that couldn’t even afford a room
• a baby that didn’t have a proper delivery
• a baby that would grow up poor and enslaved
• a group of shepherds, not even worth asking their name
• a meaningless event in a meaningless town

In God’s eyes…

• a young girl endowed with grace and conceived by the Spirit
• a righteous man willing to obey God at great risk to his own reputation
• a census that would fulfill prophecy
• a baby, God taking on human likeness (God with meat)
• a baby that becoming a man would change the world and the eternal destiny of millions

Pic from the movie The Nativity Story.