"Every child that is born, gives the message that God still loves the world" - says Rabindranath Tagore. Similarly every New Year that is dawn, gives the message that God still loves the world. When we look at the previous year, there were moments of Joy and sorrow, moments of success and failure, moments of encouragement and discouragement but we have crossed all these moments and we have reached another New Year. This is because of Hope.

The famous poet Dante defined Hope as "waiting with certainity". Hope is a confident anticipation of something yet to come. Confidence is trust or reliance upon something or someone. In the case of Christians that someone is Jesus Christ. This living faith is the confident assurance that what we hope for, will come to pass". (Heb 11: 1) Hence Blessed Pope John Paul II says, "If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we 45