Christmas is about being given to.Isaiah 9:6 sums up Christmas this way: “Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.”So, Christmas is about us being given to: God the Father giving God the Son to us, born as a baby in Bethlehem. God gives eternal life to us in Jesus by His birth, suffering, death, resurrection, and gift of Holy Baptism; and we are simply given to — recipients of God’s gifts. This is the Christmas Gospel, as St. Luke put it, “Good News of great joy that will be for all the people,” Luke 2:11, because God’s Son came to die ...