I was sitting in my office staring blankly into space. Then my leather gloves which had been thrown on my desk caught my glance. They were limp and lifeless. I reached over and picked one of them up and slipped my right hand into it. The gloved filled out. I flexed my hand - the glove moved. It was filled with life.

My mind began to dance with the thought of God coming to earth to slip into the gloves of human lives. He came to fill them out so they would pulsate with life ... so they could be and do things which by themselves they were powerless to accomplish.

Scripture says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory; glory as of the only Son from the Father ... And from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace" (John 1:14, 16). …