finding the Babe in poverty

 "As our houses are deluged in a cascade of cosy Christmas images, glittery frosted cards and happy, holy families who seem to be remarkable comfortable in strangely clean stables, we can lose track of the essential truth: that the world into which God chose to be born for us was then, as now, fraught with danger and menace."

                                                     - Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word

Then did they know assuredly
Within that house the King did lie;
One entered it then for to see,
And found the Babe in poverty.

- from The First Noel