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===Opening===
===Opening===
Dear Michael and [[Mother Spirit]], I’ve been trying to get some [[Understanding|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/Bethelehem 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 [[Understanding|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.
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 [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|your coming]] was the meeting of these two [[things]]. The hope that you [[Incarnation|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 [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|your coming]] was the meeting of these two [[things]]. The hope that you [[Incarnation|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]].