Here is the madness of Advent:

The same God who hovered over the waters of creation;

The same God who told Moses that he could not see his face and live;

The same God who created a holy-holy space to protect Israel from his overwhelming holiness;

This same God was born with eyes that could only perceive the distance between his mother's breast and her face. His mother stared lovingly into these eyes, and her eyes were his whole world, and his eyes were her whole world.

These eyes that oversaw the fashioning of the whole world.

This face that was unapproachably holy.