A Reflection on the Beginning of a New Year
On 1 January 2025, this day will be an opportunity to look back and to look forward… The Romans chose to name the first month of the year January after the god Janus who is depicted as having two faces, one looking back, the other forward. On 1 January each year, we can take the […]
New Year 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope
As we begin this New Year, we give thank for all the blessings, memories and gifts of 2024. It was year filled with many joys and many challenges as people faced economic hardship, the loss of loved ones, war and climatic changes among other things. There were also moments when we rejoiced in the good […]
“Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me”
The title is the opening lines of the song Peace on Earth by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller. Our troubled world cries out for Peace, as we witness the stories of those devastated by war, and the effects of climate change. It is easy to become overwhelmed with a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. We […]
New Year 2024
As we step over the threshold into a New Year, we look back with gratitude at the realities that have shaped us during 2023 and look forward to all that this New Year holds for us. Thresholds are places of encounter where we are challenged to widen the tents of our hearts and be ready […]
New Year 2023
New Year is a time to look back with gratitude for the gifts of 2022 and to open our hearts and minds to receive the gifts that our loving God has waiting for us in the coming year. As we watch the sun go down on New Year’s Eve, our hearts wait in anticipation for […]
New Year 2021
Greetings as we begin a new year – a year which lies before us with opportunities for creating a new way of living in our world. As Rainer Maria Wilke in his poem on New Year reminds us: “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” [1] As we […]
Stars Can’t Shine Without Darkness
A Message for New Year’s Day 2021 On this New Year’s Day many will breathe a sigh of relief that 2020 is over! We’ve heard often that 2020 has been “a year like no other”, the word of choice being “unprecedented”. It’s been a tough year, but has it really been a year ‘like no […]