Incarnation

How do you describe the miraculous combination of Divine and human? Incarnation is a term that has been applied to the miracle of Christmas. It is one word that attempts to bridge the gap of impossibility. It's not just that God chose to be with us. It is the fact that God chose to be with us as a baby in a manger in Bethlehem. The same God who came down to Mount Sinai with thunder, lightening, fire and smoke and was greeting with fear and trembling loved us enough to descend to a feed trough in a manger. No longer were the human beings who observed God's manifest presence afraid to draw near. Instead I suspect that the baby Jesus was welcomed into the world He created by the hands of Joseph and lifted to the embrace of Mary.