Happy New Year?

[Guest guest]

While I'm generally a " glass half full " person and I try to be true to my

blood group - that is, B Positive! - I must admit to being somewhat

tentative about what the New Year brings as I compare how Jim was at the

beginning of last year with how he is today.

While trying to find something to send to a friend whose husband died on

Christmas Day, the words of a poem came to me, which my grandmother used to

quote every New Year's Day. I realised the words were equally applicable to

my friend as they were to me, and possibly to many of you in this group:

And I said to the man 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. "

So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.

And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

(from 'God Knows' by Minnie Louise Haskins)

Elaine (61) from Sydney Australia

Caring for husband Jim (82) who was offically diagnosed LBD Oct 2009, but

symptoms began at least 5 years before.