be lying there and
breathed the one word, "Immanuel" (God with us). He is the reason for the
season! I want to tell you it makes me angry to see the commercialization
of Christmas. All this flim-flam about trees, and presents, and Santa Claus
tends to obscure this marvelous truth: that Baby was "God reduced to a
span/Incomprehensibly a man" and he is the only hope we have out of the
mess we find ourselves in. That is the glory of Christmas.<P>

But because Jesus is both God and man he is able to bridge the 