The season that arouses feelings of joy and giving, kindness and sharing, remorse and forgiving has already begun playing its music of life.
The sky romanticized by the twinkling aura of a holy star, had come full circle in revealing the meaning behind the greatest living story in the history of mankind two thousand years ago. The song of that shining star still oscillates in the heart and home of those who celebrate Christmas every year.
The birth of Jesus in a manger is a divine story yet realistic to the core, finding its semblance in letter and spirit of loving, giving and forgiving that awakens a beggar as well as a billionaire from the deep slumber of forgotten brotherhood.
The sounds of jingle bells and the mystery of silent night may be read in a different way by different people searching a different meaning in their own lives like the different yearly seasons that comes with different colours and hues on their wings. But the only word that is highlighted in every sentence and on every page of the Christmas book is “love”. With love, you can not only win the hearts but the whole world. So as to convey this immortal message Jesus walked in flesh and blood on the breast of the Mother Earth. And a song was created to love and to be loved. So, who can sing this Christmas song?
In the struggle of trials and tribulations, if your heart is ripped by those whom you considered your own family, your own blood relation and if they have left you solitary on the shore of pain with their words and deeds and yet you forgive them, then you can sing the Christmas song.
If you can bury the sack of lies and cheating that you carried on your shoulder until now and if you can destroy your own castle of envy, hatred and jealousy with your sight fixed on the horizon of repentance then you can sing the Christmas song.
If you don’t betray the trust of your family, be that of your wife or husband, mother or father, daughter or son, neighbour or relative and on the stage of achievement and success if you don’t push others in the cesspool of failure for your selfish motives then you can sing the Christmas song.
If you don’t take a U-turn from the promises you gave to the electorate and instead practice what you preach always, if you follow the path of righteousness for the benefit of others, if you teach the lessons of selflessness to the selfish minds by displaying your own example and if you backtrack from committing crimes against women or any other crimes against others and self then you can sing the Christmas song.
If you can balm the wounds of injured kindness and strive to protect environment, build a better nation and save the world then you can sing the Christmas song and it will always remain with you.
