Christmas 1 – What do you carry from the old year to the new? Who and what has carried you in the past year? Have you been gently carried to safety, or was the carrying rather more robust? In the year to come, who will carry us and whom will we carry? Some words from the late Irish poet John O'Donohue: "I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding". Isaiah 63: 7-9