This is a wall poster I came across at a meeting place, where three thousand students were to meet for three days to celebrate the 'year of faith'.
While 3G gets automatically associated with the 'scam', which has been in the air for over three years, it was refreshing to see how 3G was reinvented to communicate a positive message of hope and prospects.
I am afraad, that suspicion, cynicism, negative perception or discouragement have coloured our optic in India for a while. There may be enough legitimate reasons for that. Even the suspension of Indian Olympic Association from its membership of the international olympic body is yet another reason for us to be anxious about the way responsible people in leadership behave in this country by disregarding norms and practices.
However, we need to view life beyond all these disappointments or set back.
The message of Christmas is that 'the government shall be upon His shoulder'. We need to bring this good news in every situation of pain, brokenness, helplessness and strife.
I watched a group of young people on a procession yesterday with posters reading, such as 'Christmas brings peace'. There is a need to call people to trust and believe. After all, what surrounded the first Christmas event was mass murder of boys under two years of age, under the instruction of Herod. Jesus triumphed over worst of circumstances.
I wish we will be encouragement and support to each other during this season of Christmas, because we are followers of Jesus, for whom peace was a mission, and reconciliation was a vision.
As I get up hearing the songs of bird every morning, I am awakened to the reality that, God inhabits the earth in which case, His peace is still present with us.
M.C.Mathew( text and photo)
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