This is Max Locato. It was an ordinary night with ordinary sheep and ordinary shepherds.

Then the black sky exploded with brightness. Trees that had been shadows jumped into clarity.

Sheep that had been silent became a chorus of curiosity. One minute the shepherd was dead asleep

and next he was rubbing his eyes and staring into the face of an angel. The night

was ordinary no more. The angel came in the night because it's when lights are best seen and when

they are most needed. It all happened in a most remarkable moment, a moment like no other. God became

man. Divinity arrived.

Heaven opened and placed her most precious one in a human womb.

God had come near.

In the mystery of Christmas, we find its majesty.

The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come at all, and how he must love his people.

This is Max Lucato.