2007

We used a word in school to describe any nice thing - it might be a cake, a good game of football, a girl you fancied, or getting off homework. We'd say: It's a gift. It fits what we have this week, a dawning year, 2007. It is God's gift, which is different for each of us. The Lord looks on each of us as he looked on Peter, James and the others who said: We have left all things and followed you. What about us? We have done the same, and he has a future for us. W.H.Auden put it well: I want to approach the future as a friend, without a wardrobe of excuses