So, Christmas. You know the drill—baby in a manger, angels, shepherds, the whole Hallmark setup. Sweet story. Sentimental moment. Move on.

But here's what we're actually looking at this Sunday: the most radically disruptive birth in history.

Not because of the stable or the star. Because of how it happened.

Mary didn't conceive through biology. The angel straight-up told her: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you." Spirit overriding matter. Consciousness creating form. The whole thing was a demonstration that the universe—including you—doesn't run on atomic force.

This isn't a miracle in the "God occasionally breaks his own rules" sense. This is God showing what the actual rules are: Spirit is primary. Matter follows.

Jesus' birth proved that you're not assembled from random particles. You're the expression of infinite Mind. Which means your limitations? Not genetic. Your problems? Not inevitable. Your past? Not determinative.

Matter-based Christmas says: God sent a baby to fix our broken world through sacrifice and suffering.

Spirit-based Christmas says: God showed us what's always been true—we're spiritual ideas, whole and complete, never actually separated from our source.

Mary's "spiritual sense put to silence material law." Jesus demonstrated that "spiritual Truth destroys material error." Not someday. Not eventually. Constantly.

You're not barely holding on while God maybe shows up to save you. You're already held—maintained, preserved—by something storms can't touch.