God With Us

Christmas celebrates the union of the divine with humanity. Mary, a virgin, carries God's Son in her womb for nine months. Jesus, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, is born in a lowly manger. Shepherds accustomed to the gritty reality of tending sheep in the cold and hostile outdoors are visited by a heavenly choir. And over the place where the baby Jesus lay, nourished and warmed by His human mother's breast, there is cast the long, dark shadow of the cross. This is Emmanuel. God becoming a man. God with us.