There we are to give them to the Body of Christ. Our sharing in the Light must become the giving of life, prayer and healing generously and without reservation. With that the Light that came to us in a manger grows brighter and brighter and darkness recedes farther and farther into oblivion. There is in this world only one thing that seeks to distract us from the sustenance we need and from the life to which God calls us. That thing is absence of love.
Love is the gift of oneself to the other.
The child shows us how to make that gift and who it is for. It is the offering of our lives, our gifts, our talents, all that God made us to be, to all of God's creation. We are responsible not just for ourselves and our own lives. We, like the child in the manger, must live and bring light to all that God has made. It is up to each of us to choose.