Said Irenaeus, over 1600 years ago: "In his incomprehensible love for us he became as we are, so that we might be as he is."
This is ultimate love and friendship: identifying completely with the other person and sharing in each other, by which both persons become more themselves rather than being taken up into the other person. In other words, gaining your true self by losing it in the other person. There is no greater gift than this.
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How lovely that you identified it as a Christmas message. :)
Xmas is not simply about a cute little baby in a manger, but about love willing to sacrifice by completely identifying with the other person.
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