Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

This Christmas it is in the joy of being an Aunt that I reflect on the Christ Child. Whether my sixteen year old niece, Italia or the not quite two year old ruler of the Family, Cynthia - their lives remind me of the need to hold on to the child like qualities present within us all, in particular an imaginative mind which can accept so easily that all things are indeed possible.

Through their laughter, their tears, their fears and even their straight out silliness, I am rewarded daily with immeasurable joy, while simultaneously challenged to do my part to procure a World, their future, filled with even more of God’s blessings than we enjoy right now.

So when I say “Merry Christmas” this year, it is a desire to be used by God to bring about those sacred words in His prayer, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” When I say Merry Christmas this year it is a promise to my nieces and nephews and all the children of my Country, and indeed our World, to do all that I can to give them a chance to not just be nieces and nephews but in a better World, to one day be just as grateful as I am this Christmas to have nieces and nephews – to have lived long enough to catch a glimpse of another generation.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL the CHILDREN (young and old)
Of the WORLD!