I am grateful that the Christmas stories are deep and high, eternal and timely, thick and light.
I am grateful that the "ultimate" is not a solitary tyrant or an impersonal all/energy/cause, but is the three personal God.
I am grateful that humanity is not an irrelevant accident, but created by the Triune God.
I am grateful that evil is not ultimate - it is doomed.
I am grateful that the true and living God is life and light, love and truth.
I am grateful that God can act, has acted, and will act in history.
I am grateful that He came to deliver me when I was His enemy.
I am grateful that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.
I am grateful that God's glory was seen first in a manger, and most fully in the crucified one.
I am grateful that He led me to receive Him and that I am now His born again child of grace.