The X Factor

No good thing does [God] withhold from those who walk uprightly.
-Psalm 84:11, ESV

During his celebrated career as a composer, George Frideric Handel wrote forty-two operas, twenty-nine oratorios, and 120 cantatas. Of Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven said, To him I bow the knee. Handel certainly ranks as one of historys greatest composers, but he hit a point of diminishing return later in life. At age fifty-six, Handel was past his composing prime. He was depressed. He was in debt. And a stroke...