"Many of us are more comforted by what is unsaid than said.
At the heart of the Christmas story is a baby - God as a naked, newborn refugee,
God as utter absence of power.
Not a bearded patriarch with doctrine and church law,
But as a kid who grew up to teach in parables,
Then a young revolutionary who was killed for sedition,
And (finally as a man) who told people to love,
To train their hearts to be kind,
And to let their life be their witness."
from Julia Baird in Phosphorescence
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