"The lovely old carols played and replayed till their effect is like a dentist's drill...the banalities of the pulpit and chilling commercialism of almost everything else, people spending money they can't afford on presents you neither need nor want, "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer," the plastic tree, the cornball creche, the Hallmark Virgin.
Yet for all our efforts, we've never quite managed to ruin it. That in itself, is part of the miracle, a part you can see. Most of the miracle you can't see, or don't...Christmas itself is by grace. It could never have happened or survived otherwise...The Word became flesh... Ultimate Mystery born... Incarnation..."God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God... who for us and for our salvation, came down from heaven."
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