Christmas is joyful not because it is a season or decade or lifetime without pain and privation, but precisely because life does hold those moments for us. And that baby, … [the] beloved and Only Begotten Son in the flesh, born ‘away in a manger [with] no crib for his bed’ [Hymns, no. 206] makes all the difference in the world, all the difference in time and eternity, all the difference everywhere, worlds without number, a lot farther than your eye can see. – Jeffrey R. Holland, “Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?” (2000), 68, 70.