Dear Friends,

I am writing these words a few days before Christmas 2017, but I guess it will be 2018 by the time you read.  At the stroke of midnight on 31^st December we will have taken that step into a New Year. 

As we look back over 2017, there will be much that has brought us joy, peace and encouragement, and it is right that we should thank God for these things, because we all have so many blessings in our lives.  But as I write on a very grey and damp December afterno...