Wednesday Wisdom 12.13.17

"He lies in a manger, but He holds the whole world in His hands; He sucks His mother’s breasts, but feeds the angels; He is swaddled in rags, but clothes us in immortality; He is suckled, but also worshiped; He could find no room in the inn, but makes a temple for Himself in the hearts of believers. It was in order, you see, that weakness might become strong, that strength became weak. Let us therefore rather wonder at, than make light of His birth in the flesh, and there recognize the lowliness on our behalf of such loftiness." - Augustine of Hippo, Essential Sermons