Carl's Dusty Corner: Too Small to Lift His Head

I know the Christmas season is over, but I went to America for the holidays and couldn’t write anything until now. And, besides, is it ever too late or too early to talk about the Christ-child?
I think it must have been an awful thing for Christ. Colossians tells us that it was through Christ that the world was created (Col. 1:16). He formed the stars like clay and flung them into the vast and expanding black. He spun planets and set them on their courses. He forged atoms and set their elections in motion. And, for hundreds of thousands of years, and to this day, He sustained it all. He kept everything spinning and wheeling and burning and crashing. That is, until one day, when He stopped and did something else.
I’m not sure how the universe went on spinning once Christ was born. The One through Whom all things were created and are sustained was for thirty three years like one of His creations. And on the day He was born, the God that created universe had barely enough strength to lift His head.
A while back I heard a legend about that silent night that, after Christ was born, He was immediately able to speak and gave profound and wise words to those in attendance. Perhaps this story was started in order to show the Christ-child has being something other than normal, perhaps, better. That of course misses the entire point of the Incarnation. Christ’s birth was not God descending as God, but God descending to Man. It is like a king, throwing off his robes, tossing aside his scepter, and going to live as his subjects live. God threw off being God for a while.
I also heard another story that claimed that Mary was morally perfect. This was told to explain how Christ could have been born without sin. If that is the case, ours is hopeless. If Mary were perfect, then God bestowing His blessing upon her makes sense. She deserved and we can all hope to be like her someday. Except, we can’t. No one in this whole wide world can say he or she is morally perfect. That’s why we justify and rationalize. It’s why we have moral relativity, because people have gotten tired fighting against themselves. Their fortitude has failed and they can either accept that they are imperfect, or find a way around it. However, Christianity makes a startling claim in the image of a young peasant girl. Without earning it, without deserving it, she was chosen. Mary wasn’t chosen because she was special. If anything, she was chosen because she wasn’t. Because of that fact, her being with sin, we can rest assured that God can still work through us. He will find ways to use us, even though we fall very far short of Christ’s model.