Adoration of the Shepherds Detail

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Detail from the painting Adoration of the Shepherds by the Italian painter Caravaggio. Done in 1609.

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The virgin birth is far less mind-boggling than the power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.

—U.S. author Madeline L'Engle (1918–2007)

Infinite, and an infant.

Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all--a Baby.