Christmas is known as the Feast of Light because it celebrates the light in all people. As Christians prepare to mark Christ’s birth, they can find ways to become more aware of God’s presence The nineteenth-century English poet Christina Rossetti was looking through the lens of Incarnation when she prayed:Lord, purge our eyes to seeWithin the seed a tree,Within the glowing egg a bird,Within the shroud a butterfly. God is now fleshed. To perceive the world in Christmas light is to discern the hidden depths of everything, the astonishing possibilities in all that happens, the extraordinary mystery abiding within the ordinary. This Christian revelation of an incarnate God is alone among the religions of the world.  One Christmas Eve in my last parish, before tending to the