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Last Christmas my wife was due, and the wait for Jesus mixed tangibly with the excitement and wonder of expecting our son.

This Christmas, our son is almost 1 year old. I know now not only from hearsay what it means to be a father and what it means to tend a baby.

My son is not yet old enough to get the full sense of what it means that God became man. But we made an extra effort of really now purchasing a crip with statues and we sing Christian Christmas Carols. And when my son sees pictures of Jesus, or hears me imitating the sound of sheep, he smiles!

What I will do on Christmas Eve? As always since a few years, I will take the statue of baby Jesus into my arms and marvel: He made himself weak, so I could take him into my life. I will press him against my chest and thank him, and then I will pass him to the other members of my family! My wife will take baby Jesus into her arms. And I will smile and be thankful that even my son, only 1 year old, will be strong enough to hold Jesus in his arms: And I will kneel and thank him for becoming so small that we can take him into our lives, and I will pray anew that he stays with us.

(Johann Rhee)