Looking out at our world this Christmas it would be easy to lose hope and give up on the human race. But we remember that Jesus also was born into a cruel and violent world. If that little group who first looked at the child in the stable had seen only the ugliness and injustice of the world they might well have despaired and said “Look what the World has come to.”  Instead they looked at that sleeping child and said, “Look what has come to the World:” Immanuel, God with us, this Christmas, every Christmas and every day of our lives.