It Was Not a Silent Night

God in the manger was a messy scene, and "heavenly peace" didn't come easy

The circumstances of Jesus’ birth were far from pristine. The Son of God entered the world He created in a way that was raw and humble. As one of the more abrupt lines from Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb reminds us:

It was not a silent night.

Born to a teenage virgin mother in a chilly stable and laid in a feeding trough, Jesus’ arrival was marked by m…