Major

"The maiden will conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel," Isaiah 7:14.

So there they were, all hunkered down, seven plus (7+) centuries before Jesus' birth. Jerusalem besieged. King Ahaz, all scared and stuff, and Jerusalem with him, because the bad guys surrounded them. God's man Isaiah shows up and gives a minor prophecy: No worries - bad guys are humans. Ahaz, see that maiden over there? By the time she's had a kid, named him Immanuel, and weaned him, the bad guys will be history footnotes, because God is with us. (And that's just the way it happened.) But God is bigger than footnotes. He turned the minor into a major mind-blowing prophecy seven plus (7+) centuries later: A virgin conceived Immanuel. God with us. The son of God.

With a brother or sister today, we pause in wonder at this God who, for centuries, has been working painstakingly on this mess of ours, to fix it right. And, together, humbly, we give thanks.