Christmas 2019 -Stay focused

With the nostalgic feelings of all the past Xmas celebrations, forgetting for the moment, the dreadful activities of the terrorists and other evil powers around the world, and even keeping aside for a while the agitations for freedom and human rights in India, we celebrate today the Xmas with all its freshness and its happiness. Imagine! The whole world, at this point of the history, stays focused on one, the only one event –that’s the beauty of Christmas! Xmas gifts attractively packaged in colourful wrappings, plum and dry-fruit cakes snacked in rum, chocolates, rose cookies, and Xmas goodies placed under the Xmas tree, the spectacular presentation of the birth of Jesus in the cribs – shepherds watching their flocks at night, the three kings finding their way to the child in manger, angels singing above, Mary tending the child, Joseph looking at the child with a…