Here we are, at the gate of a new year – it’s like approaching the horse show ring, walking up the chute, through the in-gate… and into the unknown – do you feel your heart pounding??

As I wonder what the coming year will bring, this quote stills those butterflies-mixed-with- anticipation… It’s from a war-time speech by King George – not knowing Britain if would ultimately win the war.

“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.’
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.’”