12 Days of Christmas Quotes: Day 6
One may think of a diver first reducing himself to
nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing
down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through the
increasing pressure into the deathlike region of ooze and slime and old decay,
and then back up again, back to color and light, his lungs almost bursting
until suddenly he breaks the surface again, holding in his hand the dripping,
precious thing he went down to recover. That dripping, precious thing is you
and I, and Advent is when we celebrate his coming down to us.
(C.S.Lewis)
