God calls us to enter into the spirit of [the Christmas] season by entering into Christ in such a way that we live out his humility. . . . St. Bernard is rumored to have said, “He is humble who converts humiliations into humility.” As long as we feel humiliated we are not perfectly humble. To choose a humiliation is to choose a grace that will produce the fruit of humility. . . . As we allow ourselves to be formed by the incarnation, the self-emptying of the Son of God shines through our words and actions. — Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004), 70-71.