Christmas Near Paradise

Vanderleun writes here about his Christmas near Paradise. The last paragraph:

Later, as he drove west back into town, the sunset in front of him grew more and more intense until it held all the colors of a raging wildfire cast up from behind the coast range. He stopped by the side of the road and watched this singular sunset burning brighter and brighter until its colors became as incendiary as the Light of the World, born this day, long ago, in Bethlehem.