India, Dec. 24 -- When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the angels sang: "Glory to God on high, and peace to all on earth." What is the glory of God that this helpless infant in the poverty and misery of a cowshed reveals?

It is the glory that shines through this magical event of God of heaven and earth choosing to be born as a human being in order to save humankind from sin, suffering and every form of evil.

It is the sense of relief, of interior freedom and unspeakable joy that springs from being drawn into intimacy with the divine, and savouring inwardly the goodness, the tenderness and the compassion of God.

It is the profound feeling of being liberated from every kind of bondage, healed of every wound, and every kind of brokenness.

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