perhaps even material success. for others of us, this may prove to be a disastrous year, filled with pain and failure and tragic loss, personal suffering, the suffering of loved ones, and perhaps even death. which will it be for us? we gather here this evening, and none of us can truly know the answer to that question. it may be one. in may be the other. and it can be anything in between.
and the truly frightening part is that so much of it – for good or for ill – probably will be beyond our control. there is so much of our lives which simply is out of our 