New Year

May you find the joys and blessings

and the light you need

in this New YearHere's to a Happy 2006

And I said to the one who

stood at the gate of the year,

"Give me a light

that I may tread safely into the Unknown."

And 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."

--- Minnie L. Haskins