The light shines in the...
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The light shines in the darkness...!" That is the essence of the Christmas message. As this reading stirs us to recall the primeval creating of light. So it prompts us to realize that such light fulfills our greatest longings.
Biochemist Isaac Asimov has put the question in this interesting way. "If you were a primitive person waiting through a long night; if it were dark and chilly, with no source of light and heat but perhaps a smoldering campfire; if you could hear the rustling noises that might mean predatory animals that could see far better in the dark than you could; if you could sleep no more -- what would be the greatest sight?
"It would have to be the soft graying of the sky in the east, the brightening of the dawn, which brought the sure promise that, in a short while, poking above the horizon, would come the sun itself, to make the world light and secure again."
Biochemist Isaac Asimov has put the question in this interesting way. "If you were a primitive person waiting through a long night; if it were dark and chilly, with no source of light and heat but perhaps a smoldering campfire; if you could hear the rustling noises that might mean predatory animals that could see far better in the dark than you could; if you could sleep no more -- what would be the greatest sight?
"It would have to be the soft graying of the sky in the east, the brightening of the dawn, which brought the sure promise that, in a short while, poking above the horizon, would come the sun itself, to make the world light and secure again."
