It was Christ himself who chose the stable to be born in. He still chooses unlikely places. In each of us, just beyond the noise of our outward life, there is some place of silence and darkness, an emptiness where, if we have courage enough, we are alone with ourselves. There in this place of silence, we know that God alone can fill our emptiness, he alone can content us, he alone is our peace. It is in this secret place of the soul that Christ wants to be born in us. . .It is in this dark place of our heart that Christ wants the light of the world to begin to burn and from its burning to radiate, until it shines back from the face of humanity. . .It is easy to see that the world is wounded, hard to see that its healing begins in our own heart. . .It requires faith to believe that Christ will be born in mankind this Christmas, but much more faith to believe that he will be born in our own heart, that he could fulfill his will of love in our own life. . .

– Caryll Houselander