As many of us prepare to celebrate Christmas, while the world is ablaze with war and suffering, it is easy to feel comforted by our relatively safe and cozy lives within our relatively peaceful country. There is nothing wrong with that, in fact our gratitude should really be boundless as we see how others are forced to live, through no fault of their own.But gratitude can easily morph into entitlement, as if there is something other than luck that determined the circumstances under which we were born. There are many people who are asking you to believe that you are ...