“In Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic, “Through
the Looking Glass”, the White Queen advises
Alice to practice believing six impossible things
before breakfast each day. Every Christmas,
Christians would do well to take the same
advice. How else are we to prepare ourselves
for the preposterous story we are about to hear
again about how God decided to abandon
heaven for earth, trading power and might for
diapers and a teething ring? And how his
mother could not say how it happened, exactly,
although his mother’s husband knew for sure
that it had nothing whatsoever to do with
him?”
-Barbara Brown Taylor