'What Child Is This?' Why Followers of Jesus Should Have No Peace This Christmas

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Dec 10, 2025 · 5m

Have you ever felt like something was off, something you couldn’t quite place but you were sure of just the same; that despite all the trappings of normal and appearances of routine, there hovered a subtle but very profound not-rightness?

Well, something is not right within me these days, and I know it.

I’m not sure how to describe it other than to say that lately, something is missing.

I think it may be peace.

I think I’m becoming starved of peace.

It hasn’t happened overnight, but over time my soul’s been so weighed down by suffering and so saturated by the sadness all around that the…