I cannot tell you how many times I have woken up on January 31 &, having seen the date on my watch, promptly thought “omg it’s New Year’s Eve” before coming to & realizing that was a month ago.
Today, we celebrate a brown, Jewish baby born in scandal to a young woman—an outsider; raised by a day-laborer. He came to teach us how to love; uniquely Word and love made flesh.