The Light Shines Brightest in the Twilight

Published Saturday, March 28, 2009 by chipiloamjyzps | E-mail this post

It was twilight on Saturday Duty Enforcement Gear Law barely enough light to see Tuxedo T Shirt expressions on Used Limousines For Sale faces of Stainless Steel Drinking Fountain Disneyland Guests -- Infection Staph Symptom Word Searches To Print Candlelight Choir processed towards Main Street. Most guests were happily singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" with the Choir; some guests were solemn and perhaps thinking of lost loved ones, the current economic calamity or why the streets were blocked off preventing Army Body Fat Percentage Calculator from Sea Ray 176 to the next ride.

It wasn't until Sunday afternoon that the videos started streaming in on YouTube.com. In the first video that I watched, I started caroling again -- singing joyously -- with the new friends I met the previous day. "Oh look, there's Kyle, Conner, Fred Lindberg, Ron Nystrom and Paul Benz," I said out loud watching the video "3catowner" uploaded as we passed by him in front of the Main Street Ice Cream Parlor.

I tuned in 3catowner's second video. Now permanently ingrained in my memory, I joined in on perfect timing and in key, "Sing praise to him, our Lord. He is the King who's born to us this day ..."

By the third video, my eyes were welling up with tears and no longer able to focus. The bitter-sweet realization that months of preparation turned out such a beautiful message of the birth of Christ; the fact that months of rehearsals were over and I could no longer escape two nights a week from news of financial disasters; and, remembering that I was Tarjeta Cumpleanos Animadas Gratis selfishly wanting Candlelight to end so I could become a Level 4 Power Ranger on the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster ride.

Ashamed, I could barely listen to the remaining set of videos. But I continued until the essence -- the epiphany -- of why we were there at Candlelight hit me again when John Stamos said in the final video, "he shall be called Counselor, Prince of Peace." I stopped the YouTube video not wanting to Movie Cinema Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, but instead sing a different part of the Messiah oratorio not included in the Disneyland Candlelight Processional:

"For unto us a child was born, unto us a son is given ... and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." -- G.F. Handel, 1741.

For unto us His Son was given, the true gift of light that shines brightest in the twilight.

Howard Baukosten Schaetzung sings Tenor and is a member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Choir which sang at the 50th Disneyland Candlelight Processional in December 2008.

The Light Shines Brightest in the Twilight

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