I normally am REALLY, REALLY disagreeable to this guy's politics but I think this is one of the better things I've ever read.
Rather than being a timeless Other, God somehow assumed the constraints of poverty and mortality. He was dependent on human care and vulnerable to human violence. The manger implied the beams and the nails. To many in the Roman world — and to many since — this seemed absurd, even blasphemous. Through eyes of faith, it appears differently. Novelist and minister Frederick Buechner sees the “ludicrous depths of self-humiliation [God] will descend in his wild pursuit of mankind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-christmas-and-the-argument-about-power/2013/12/23/1bcc7c6e-6c04-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html?hpid=z2
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