A Colourful 2017

This Nigerian family comes to mass every Sunday at the cathedral and every Sunday they present with a different outfit.  Each time, their dress is so colourful, reflecting their own happiness and love for life.  I can see it in their faces and not just in their dress.  

Well, they arrived this Sunday for mass on New Year's Day and I just thought - Stunning!  I so had to take a photo and share their colour and joie de vive.  So here it is. 

They make for me a loud, clear and positive statement about what I hope for 2017 and for all of us.  May it be a year of colour!  Not the year of gloom that I hear so many around me talk about.  

I think that in the midst of all that is going on in our world what is needed is colour.  This is not so as to escape harsh realities but rather to help us face our harsh realities within a healthy, life giving and joyful perspective so that we meet them head on as challenges for us to tackle for the sake of life.

May 2017 be a year of vibrant and life-giving colour!!