[thomasw_]

Merry Christmas indeed! This is a few selections from a hymn on the Nativity by St. Ephraim:>
"Blessed be the Newborn who today made humanity young again.
Blessed is He whom also the wood bore, when He allowed it.
Blessed is He whom even the grave enclosed, when He set limits to Himself.
Blessed is He whose will brought Him to the womb and to birth and to the bosom and to growth.
Blessed is He whose changes revived our humanity.
Blessed is He who engraved our soul and adorned and betrothed her to Himself.
Blessed is He who made our body a tabernacle for His hiddenness.
Blessed be the Fruit who bowed himself down for our hunger!"

Indeed, Merry Christmas as Christ is born!