Many of us have lost the wonder of the Christmas story because we've sanitized all the humanity out of it. We don't see the fear in the eyes of a Middle Eastern teenager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy. We don't picture Mary hunched over the side of the road, throwing up because of morning sickness. We don't imagine baby Jesus, fresh out of the womb, covered with goopy fluids, blood, and hair. God isn't afraid to get messy. And we see this no more clearly than the way He chose to enter our world, through the womb.