If you would hear God just listen quietly to the silences that surround that cave in Bethlehem’s chalk hills where a Virgin brings forth a Child in an atmosphere surcharged with the silence of God telling you a long, long story. It is a true story, and one in which you play no minor role. It is a love story, for God knows no other. But like all stories that tell of true love, this is filled with mystery. In it, as in many a good mystery story, there is a murder! But since God deals in romance and not in tragedy, He solves the mystery of this murder by a miracle which scatters all earth’s sad clouds, lights up the world’s darkness, dries all human tears, as it conquers man’s only enemy, the universe’s one real evil, and even death itself. “Love leaps the grave” and goes on to prepare for you and me an eternally long and eternally loving Christmas.
Of course this greeting of God, which brings us face to face with a feast and a fact, brings us also face to face with what baffles our understanding. Why should God ever speak to you or to me? Why should He beggar Himself, as it were, in order to give us at Christmas the gift of His only Son? Why should Bethlehem’s Child love us to death-even to the death of the cross? Why?
There is only one answer. …. Love does such things! And when that Love is Infinite, what can we not expect?

Love Does Such Things by Rev. Fr. Raymond, O.C.S.O.