This is Max Lakato. Prior to Bethlehem, God gave us his messengers, his teachers, his words,

but in the manger, God gave us himself. Extraordinary, don't you think? I imagine even Gabriel

scratched his head at the idea of God with us. Gabriel surely was not one to question his God-given missions. When

God sent, Gabriel went. And when the word got out that God was to become a human, Gabriel

was no doubt enthused. He could envision the moment the Messiah in a blazing chariot, the king

descending on a fiery cloud, an explosion of light from which a Messiah

would emerge what he never expected however was a slip of paper with a Nazarene address

God will become a baby it read tell the mother to name the child Jesus, and tell her not to be afraid.

This is Max Lakato.