I want to present you just with a short meditation for Christmas bringing the message of humbleness (truth) and freedom (childlike trust in God) from a writing of Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus (Foundress of the Little Sisters of Jesus):

“This crowning point could have been the beginning for you just as it was for Jesus, who is your only model and who became a tiny infant.  But maybe you forgot to turn to him lovingly enough and maybe you did not contemplate him long enough in this humble aspect, without grandeur or majesty.  At first you probably did not know quite what to think.

 Up till then you were trying to do great and beautiful things, and you were disappointed.  One way or another we are always disappointed when we try to do something admirable by ourselves, even when we claim to be wholly disinterested, insisting so much that we believe it ourselves. 

And with all this you forgot to look lovingly enough at the whole of Christ’s life, which began in a manger.  He was a little infant like any other with nothing unusual about him, just a little infant like you yourself were, without much charm those first hours and first days.  He became a tiny baby crying from the cold as he lay there on the straw in a state of total helplessness which he took on out of love…

 That is how our God first appeared, and he wants to be contemplated and adored in this state not only by the lowly but also by the great, for he accepted the adoration of both shepherds and wise-men, and even led them by a star into the presence of this little baby without grandeur or majesty.

 It is true that you will not be able to understand him unless you have the eyes and the heart of a child.  But it is too easy to forget that this state of spiritual childhood is not reserved for only a few people.  Spiritual childhood has become an obligation ever since our Lord took a little child by the hand, put him in the midst of the grown men who were arguing over who would have the first place and who were dreaming of an earthly kingdom, telling them,

“If you do not become like little children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 18:3).”

- From Childlike in Heart (part of Little sister Magdeleine's Green Booklet)

(source: http://www.jesuscaritas.info/jcd/node/2505?page=0%2C0  )