We are all enjoying the festive and wonderful season of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I do sincerely hope that you all had a blessed and a memorable Christmas with your family and friends. We now look forward to the coming year 2023.

A quick reflection over the key happiness and events that shook the world in the recent past it occurred to me that in all the scenarios there is one thing in common, the never-ending ‘uncertainty’. The year 2022, witnessed several leaps and bounds of uncertainty, we would have not ever thought or imagined. We started the year with the relentless and endless pandemic, COVID-19, with its countless variants playing havoc with the population, claiming a million lives worldwide. The latter half of the year saw the pandemic receding behind curtains and bringing relief and jubilation. The Russia –Ukraine war and the resulting oil crisis went on to have a ripple effect on the world economy. So many countries are going through bad times and the current economic situation creating a constant doubt or fear of a recession in 2023. It’s an uncertain future. Is this the new way of living our lives? We need to reflect and debate this issue as we journey through the course of our lives. More often than ever, we wake up in the morning, eat, go to work, come home, again eat, sleep, repeat and the cycle becomes a monotonous routine. Some of us have even forgotten the reason for our existence. As we depart from this year to the next, let us usher in 2023 with renewed hope and total faith in the Almighty. New year – a new chapter, new verse, full of dreams and resolutions. Ultimately we are the ones who write it. The choice is ours.

Wishing, one and all a very Happy New Year 2023, with prayers that you and your family are blessed with heavenly blessings all the 365 days of the year.

All the very best always!

Until we meet again

Felix Dias
Editor