It’s easy to lose sight of this among lights, carols and presents, but Christmas actually celebrates a birthday.
In Luke 1, an angel visited Mary to inform her that she has “found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
That would be a lot for anyone to take in.