“This Christmas Season May the presence of Jesus be your greatest gift—softening your burdens, elevating your faith, and renewing your soul.” The scene of the Nativity has endured for centuries because it speaks to something brutally honest about the human condition: we are fragile, we are uncertain, and yet we long for meaning that outlives our failures. Christmas is not a sentimental escape from that reality; it is a confrontation with it. A child born in obscurity shifts the trajectory of his