I know that these images become for many of us an idealized and sentimentalized aspect of the Christmas story and that they do some harm to the reality and meaning of that story. On the other hand, they communicate something that few Christians talk about---God's Presence in every thing. The theologian Richard Rohr makes the point in one of his books that in learning to love God we should start with loving what is small (a rock, for instance) and build on that to the point that we approach God. I don't think that Rohr is saying that the rock is God or Christ or Jesus, but that God, Christ and Jesus live both within and beyond matter and that things and animals and all of creation are in a relationship with us because God is with us and within us and we are matter as well. So---look to the sky or to wherever or at whatever you find on your journey and see if you can see God in it and love it.
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