Brendan Manning asks the question: “I wonder, if we were to stop people at random in the street on December 24 and ask them what they want most for Christmas, how many would say, ‘I want to see Jesus’?” (Walking in the LIght) page 200. I am sure I wouldn’t have. I might have said nothing, or perhaps peace on earth, or even that the hungry would be fed. But, I almost certainly would not have said that I want to see, or understand, or confront Jesus. Yet, that is what Christmas is really about—Jesus comes into the world and unless we “see” him, unless we understand as best we can that it is through him we are made free and can approach God, then Christmas means nothing.