THE EDITOR, Sir:
AS WE enter the New Year we can choose to enter it with a sense of hopelessness or hopefulness. The hopelessness may be attributed to hardships, challenges, failures, disappointments or personal losses but as apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "We are hard-pressed on every side, BUT not crushed; perplexed BUT not in despair; persecuted BUT not abandoned; struck down BUT not destroyed".
Paul's confidence in the light of such great trials was built on a relationship he had with Christ Jesus. Paul could have thrown a pity party and bemoaned his lot in life (which is easy to do) BUT rather he held on to the hope he had in God that "all things work together for the good of those who love him (the Lord)".
We too can have such confidence and I am sure we could all do with some of that kind of confidence for 2005. Let us re-look at 2004 and do stocktaking of our lives as individuals and as a people (as the businesses do at this time of the year). On what did we base our confidence in last year? Has that confidence been eroded, become shaky in the least? We can have the confidence of Paul and many others and it is the kind of confidence that will cause us to endure the now and the life after death.
Happy New Year, Jamaica and may it be a blessed and prosperous one for our nation.
I am, etc.,
METZ
mp@yahoo.com
Kingston 20
Via Go-Jamaica
