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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I’ve been trying to get some grasp on what is the [[essence]] of the coming holidays--or holy-days--at this [[time]] of year.  I recalled the [[words]] of the carol celebrating the little town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem], the assertion that “the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years are met in thee tonight” with your birth as [[Jesus]].  It always puzzled me: what had fear to do with it?  What could it mean by a meeting of hope and fear?  But the more I [[thought]] of it, the more it seemed they are inextricably tied together.

   

   

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.

It’s fear that [[challenges]] the innate hope of a living [[human]] [[being]], yet by the same token it’s hope that allows us to conquer our fears.  So your coming was the meeting of these two [[things]].  The hope that you embodied then, and now in our ways of contacting you and [[Mother Spirit]], do give birth, do bring into [[consciousness]] those very fears and limitations that are holding us back.  It’s by having [[faith]] and hope in the two of you, and in our loving connection, that we are able to meet those fears.  That is the triumph of hope.