ON December 25 God was born of a woman as Son of God yet also man. He won’t lose an iota of divinity nor an inch of His exact identity with His Father and the Third Person of the Triune God of Love. For love between Two more so if They are One because Divine cannot help but make a Third, / like two people in love make a child but with less certainty./There are childless couples./But God being exactly that/He cannot fail to be productive. / That is not the miracle and mystery we celebrate. / The supposedly inexplicable thing or event is that / this will happen with the necessary intervention of a human being, / herself the Mother of God. / The miracle is that / at the instant of God’s birth— / an event itself / that is a first even for God because He was always around— / at that instant, time will reverse itself / to the moment of creation, / and fast forward to the fall of man, / the test of Abraham, / and the choice of the Jews as the race from whence shall come in due order / the Mother of God and His Son. / Then on to the moment that she / at a particular time and in a very small place, / gives birth to the Maker of Time and pace. / This is supposed to be the miracle and mystery of Christmas, / but there is no miracle and no mystery as you can see, / for everything is perfectly explained by me / in the most ordinary terms. / The Maker is born into that which He made, / out of the womb of a woman / in the line of the first man he created. / So the Creator is created / and the Maker is made. / A mystery should be dark, / a miracle baffling. / But this event is luminous / and as clear to the mind / as a star to the eyes on the night of the very first Christmas. / And all this was for only one purpose, albeit great: / To extinguish a very bright light / in the middle of a very bright day, / just so it will be rekindled very early on the morning / of the very first Easter. / In that way, all other lives that were / and may be lost / might still be saved / on the
very last day / of the earth.
/ Keep well.