Happy New Year to everyone!

[AussieMick]

( Eva, the bravery of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will never be forgotten. I like to think that he would have been The Man At The Gate ...)

Some of you may have seen the film called The King's Speech. It concerns the difficulties that King George VI had in dealing with a severe stammer. In 1939 he gave a Christmas radio broadcast to the British Empire when Britain seemed to be facing annihilation.

He quoted from the start of a poem by Minnie Haskins ... and it seems apt at this time ...
"The Gate of The Year" :-

And 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.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
So heart be still:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_the_Year