[Oe List ...] Salmon with Reflections on Handel's Messiah

[Margaret Helen Aiseayew]

REFLECTIONS ON Handle’s “Messiah”Thank you, Bill, for this wonderful reflection.  I love the images of the hoody.  I must admit, however, that you nearly lost me with "The reason is that the darkness is eternal, and this is where God lives within each of us."  
Years ago when I was struck by lightening (I'm sure I have bored you all with the story) everything was white light.  I had always presumed that a blind person saw only dark.  It had never occurred to me that they saw light and that it was blinding.  I found myself with a whole new relationship to darkness, which is really, always, only shadow.  When I let my ego get in the way, I am creating excess shadow.  Falling through light is as breathtaking as falling through the dark.  You are still stuck with the same surrender.  The valley is exhalted when the shadows of the mountains get out of the way.  The light (as well as the joy and hope and peace) that Jesus birth brought into the world is still always happening, as is the light of the resurrection.  The great thing about the Jesus story is that there is usually both personal and sociological shadow.
I don't know how to work this all the way through Handel.  I , too, know that I have not yet hit bottom, but my metaphor has changed.  I would rather say:  The reason is that light is eternal, and this is where God lives within each of us.
Love, to Bev too, Margaret

Can I have an “Amen?”
  Merry  Christmas!
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