Dedications

Elvis Presley's song 'Blue Christmas', is about having Christmas without a loved one. We have been celebrating Christmas without Jesus for over two thousand years. No one ever felt blue without Jesus. It's not about the season of Christmas where we celebrate his birth. That's not Christmas. That's an excuse to have a festive reason for celebration. To the extent in America even greetings of 'Happy Christmas' is replaced with 'Happy Holidays'. Reason being it resonates with a wider audience with people of other faith. How much inclusive are we trying to become? To the extent of even having Christ out of Christmas?

What Christmas are we planning to celebrate this year? When land were Jesus traversed is flowing in blood. Even Jesus may have not suffered as gruesome a death like many of the innocent civilians have faced in the bloody war between Israel and Palestine. Many of them infants. Atleast Jesus was given an embalming tomb burial. Here dead bodies are not even in body bags but in black garbage bin bags. Hospitals in ruins and medication performed by Doctors with torch or mobile lights. 

The wise men who came to visit Jesus were guided by the light of a star. Here we are seeing bloody carnage live, light up on our TV screens. What about the hundreds of infants being killed in the war. Atleast Jesus was saved from Herod, where the wise men were guided back home through a different route. What route could these who were brutally killed take? Killed in their own homes? Jesus atleast had the warmth of a Manger, here war effected innoncents especially kids don't even have a roof and taking shelter in rubbles. A wild thought, what if one of these infants killed was The Second Coming? Killed at birth even before he could redeem the world?

So this Christmas when you put decorations of red on a green Christmas Tree it won't be the same dear, for those living in the land of Jesus, in fear

And when those snow flakes start falling

You will be doing all right

With your Christmas of white

and your parties at night