As we turn toward a new year with 2020 behind us, there is good reason to be anxious, worried, and fearful. We are exhausted from living through history. The pandemic continues to rage on. Vaccines are in the works but how will they actually work? There is a transition of power in our politics ahead. As much as we want to believe that we will wake up on January 1, 2021 and all of this will have been a dream (or nightmare), we know that not to be true. So, what is to come? It can be a scary thought. The beauty of Christmas, of this baby who is now only three days old, is that we do not need to fear. In the Christ child comes hope with the proclamation from Isaiah 35, “Here is your God.” This baby whom Mary and Joseph surly feared for, despite the multiple angels saying, “Do not fear,” is the living, breathing, incarnation of hope, love, grace, and the God who has come and saved you!