There are some experiences in life, some ideas and feelings which defy our power of language and speech.  It’s difficult to talk about the sacrificial love of parents.  We struggle for words to describe the beauty of a sunset.  We ransack our vocabulary to find words that image forth our experience of God.  Not least among these experiences, ideas, and feelings which defy our power of speech and language, is the meaning of Christmas.  We do our best as freshly and as meaningfully as possible to capture the meaning of it all.  Try as we will though, we always feel limited and always feel that we’ve not quite made it.  So we need more than words, don’t we.  We need some means of communication more expressive than language.  It’s true with other experiences as well.  And to some degree we hav…