“Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don’t light a candle in a room that’s already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that’s so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.”
― N.T. Wright, For All God’s Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

This may seem like a dark quote but we can never find the solution until we first see the problem. Christmas brought the light that helped us see and then He solved the problem for us!