I love that Christmas invites us to ask a simple but piercing question: What child is this? Not which child, as though we’re sorting options, but what kind of child is this? I shared the backstory of the carol—written by William Chatterton Dix in 1866 after a season of illness and depression—because its question still searches us. Life gives us plenty of opportunities to let questions pull us away from God. The problem isn’t that we question; it’s where those questions take us. So we turned to Luke 2 and watched how God met ordinary people in an ordinary night with an extraordinary interruption.