You see, God couldn’t wait for “better” circumstances.  For some reason, it was important to God to birth God’s son into a messy reality by a poor, marginalized couple from the Middle East during the regime of a cruel ruler named Herod.  For some reason, it was important to God that God’s son not be born at the Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville but in a poverty stricken county in Eastern Kentucky.  For some reason, it was important to God to introduce Jesus to us in the same birthing process as you and I entered this world.