One Christmas morning, a young widow was doing her best to make Christmas happy for her two little boys. This was their first Christmas without their father. Unexpectedly, someone knocked at the door. "Who could that be?" she wondered. When she opened the door, she found her pastor standing with his arms full of toys and candy. This man, who was one of the most renowned preachers of his era, said quite simply: "I thought your boys might miss their father on Christmas morning." He spent the next two hours playing with the two boys and their new toys.1 

That minister became a living parable of the meaning of Christmas! By his caring deed, he demonstrated the doctrine of the Incarnation far more persuasively than he could have with his most eloquent sermon. Christmas means God humbled himsel…