It is New Year’s Eve. The last day of 2021. Most of us will be glad to see it swept into history. It has been a tough year for many. What will 2022 bring? Who knows – I have lots of hope but it is a cautious hope given all the world is dealing with these days.
Every New Year’s my mom would quote the portion of the poem written by Minnie Louise Haskins and famously broadcast by King George VI in his Christmas message in 1939 – a year that also knew threat and difficulties. Let me offer it to you today, in fond memory of my mom and with the hope and optimism it inspires…
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year ~ “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way,”
Happy New Year, dear friends.
