Christmas is the celebration of everything becoming something. In the beginning, God made everything from nothing. Everything, that is, except for Himself. He was not made. He is the Maker. He is the everything who made something, all things that have been made as it turns out. So, there existed a distinction. The Creator and His creation. The one thing that He was not was a created thing. But even that did not prove too difficult an obstacle for Him to overcome.
John 1:1-3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
The Word that was God became like the words He spoke. He became like a created thing in order to dwell among His creation. All things were created by Him in the beginning and in the incarnation He made Himself a created thing.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The incarnation is the miracle of the One who made everything from nothing becoming something in particular. The incarnation does not destroy the distinction between Creator and creation, but it does bridge the distinction. Jesus is Jacob's ladder. He is the mediator between heaven and earth and there is no other safe way to approach the Father but through Him.
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