Reflection for the month - March

'Put your hand into the Hand of God'

With all the strife and uncertainty in the world today it is worrying that  many people in our country no longer consider that God has a place in their lives. Every day we see or hear about the unwelcome effects of godlessness in society.  We are led to believe that it is much easier to lead a life free of the restrictions that Christian and other faiths and morals place upon us. But whenever the trouble comes close to home it is “God help us” that we hear.

In 1939, in the first days of the Second World War, King George VI broadcast to his people, anxious and facing a fearful future.  He used words from the poem, “The Gate of the Year” by Minnie Haskins.   “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”, then “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”. St. Luke reminds us of God’s promise to Abraham (Luke 1: 79) “God’s sunrise will break in on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide their feet into the path of peace”.  May it be so.