“Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace”–

That is how we speak at the manger in Bethlehem.

Our words rush out

at the sight of the divine child;

we try to put into language

what is implied in the one name: Jesus.

But at bottom these words are nothing

except a wordless silence of adoration

before the ineffable, before the presence of God

in the shape of a human child.

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer