Christmas is the celebration of God's silence becoming aware of itself in Christ, and in us.

"Christ's birth as man is nothing less than the visible expression of his eternal birth as the Word of God in the eternal silence of the Father.  Of course, in the Father, silence is the fullness of everything.  This silence - fullness becoming aware of itself - is the Word, God's Son.  Christmas is the celebration of the grace of this eternal birth IN US."

Thomas Keating
St. Benedict's Monastery
Snowmass, Colorado

Photo: Cub Lake, Fern Lake Burn, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 21, 2012