In the beginning was the Word,
    and the Word was with God,
    and the Word was God…

…The Word became flesh
    and pitched his tent among us.
(From John 1)

This is the mystery, and the magnificence, of Christmas!  God, in the person of the Son, came to earth and dwelt among human kind, fully human  and fully God.  This reality, the Incarnation, was the theme of one of the services we attended last night.  And while one of the sermon illustrations was one of the good, but over used and simplistic, explanations of the reason for the incarnation, I can not criticize it because any human explanation of this divine mystery is going to be simplistic and flawed.

So on this Christmas day, thank God for the gift he has given us and celebrate it with family and friends.

Merry Christmas.

(And for tomorrow, Happy Boxing Day or Feast of Saint Stephen if you are so inclined.)