Unto Us A Child Is BornUnto Us A Child Is Born Handels Messiah was the sound of Christmas in my home as a child. This music, with lyrics extracted directly from the Bible, distilled upon my heart the true promise of Christ coming to save a fallen world. In 1741 George Friedrich Handel was 56 years old and facing bankruptcy. Most esteemed him as a washed up has been. He went from one failure to the next, his earlier successes in the distant past. Now, he was facing debtors'