One of my faculty colleagues shared this past Christmas morning a favorite verse from a Christmas hymn:

“For He is our childhood’s pattern;
Day by day, like us, He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
And He feeleth for our sadness,
And He shareth in our gladness.”

This colleague noted the way this passage beautifully echoes Hebrews 4:15, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin.”