In the movie, “A Patch of Blue”, the blind girl asks her grandfather, “Old Paw, what’s green like?” The irritated man answers: “Green is green, stupid. Now stop asking questions.” There follows a poignant scene in which the young girl claws the grass with her hands and gently rubs a leaf against her cheek, trying to experience the reality of “greenness”. That is a parable of the human situation. We want to experience reality. We try to dissect it, claw at it, analyze it, explain it.

God helps us here. When He got ready to communicate His greatest idea, He took that idea and wrapped it in a person. Pause reverently for a moment to consider what just said. When God wanted to communicate His greatest idea, He took that idea and wrapped it in a person. That’s the meaning of the Incarnation.…