I’ve always taken much comfort in these words of our Lord : “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) I remember, as a child, reading these words from my Children's Bible and being moved to tears. They are particularly poignant on this day, as the final few hours of 2018 fall away into the darkness of the night, and the dawn of the New Year beckons. Like a sailboat that can never sail directly into the wind but has to tack and gybe in crooked lines towards the