When we celebrate Christmas we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the the galaxies into being, limited all power, and for love of us came to us in the powerless body of a human baby. My faith is based on this incredible act of love, and if my faith is real it will be expressed in how I live my life, but it is outside the realm of laboratory or scientific proof.

God–the holy and magnificent Creator of all the galaxies and solar systems and planets and oceans and forests and living creatures–came to live with us, not because we are good and morally virtuous and what God’s creation ought to be, but precisely for the opposite reason, because we are stiff-necked and arrogant and sinful and stupid. We have indeed strayed from God’s ways like lost sheep.

God still loves us so much that Christ, the second person of the Trinity, the Word, came to live with us as one of us, and all for love.

from Glimpses of Grace