Blessings for the New Year

I received this New Year's greeting from Dudley Stone, Triangle Theatre Company's artistic director, and want to share it with you:

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, "give me a hand that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he said "go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God, that will be to you better than light and safer than a known way."

Quoted by King George VI in his Christmas radio address to the nation after the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939.