God's long love affair with humanity was a story of repeated unfaithfulness on our part, heartbreak, and forgiveness, repeated attempts by God to love us and teach us to love. I have a new kind of covenant in mind, harder for me but easy for you. From now on you do not have to come to where I am, however much I would like you to. I am so crazy in love with you that I will come all the way to where you are, to be flesh of your flesh and bone of your bone. I will do it all, and all you have to do is believe me - that I love you the way you are, love you enough to become one of you, and that I love you to death.
Love is always a humiliating experience.
It makes you vulnerable. It shifts your center from yourself to the other and puts you at their mercy. That's what God has done in this child. And if God is so directly and tangibly present in this weak little bundle of flesh, then God might just be present anywhere. By entering the creation so directly, God has made all creation holy and pregnant with his presence.