The Christmas Child is a troublesome child, as troublesome as the Word that stirred the waters from the deep and let God's voice be heard. The Christmas Child is a spirited child who questions given rule, who flouts convention's pious face, who laughs and plays the fool. The Christmas Child is a generous child, extravagant in excess, who spends the coin of life and hope to recreate and bless. The Christmas Child is a dangerous child when to a prophet grown, whose vision takes a thorny path, whose cross may be our own. The Christmas Child is a troublesome child, as troublesome as the Word that stirred the waters from the deep and let God's voice be heard. The Christmas Child is a luminous child whose peace the angels sing, whose star no darkness overcomes, whose life lights everything.