Steve Regan: the King of Hull - A New Year Message continued

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Many will be thinking with considerable bitterness that those cherished dreams and personal ambitions of our younger years have crashed and burnt, never now to be realised. It's a painful adjusting to disappointment that we all have to make as we travel though life.

Some of you reading this, may, like me, have just spent a Christmas without, for the first time, a much loved member of the family being present. In November, my dad died after a long and horrible illness, you see. Dad's death was hard to endure, but no more difficult for me, I dare say, than other deaths are for very many people reading this column now.

At the turn of a year, people's memories start to go into overdrive, thinking of lost friends and relations who were once such a vibrant part of our lives. If you are feeling like that, I hope that 2005 brings you some comfort and some new adventures that can help you refocus your mind and imagination. And if you are ill, mentally or physically, as you read this, I wish you a healthier tomorrow and a year ahead full of new beginnings.

If you are living as a single person, as more and more people are these days, I send you particularly warm greetings. There is a special place for you in the heart of God. Remember, you are not alone in a world that likes to pretend the only way to be fulfilled is to be part of a couple (so very untrue).

There is much to be thankful for in everyone's life, actually. It really is up to each of us to do good and to be positive. All those individual acts of positive will can combine to cancel out the bad forces at work in the world. That is the way humanity has always kept the balance sheet of good and evil tipped in favour of good. And always will, actually. Sometimes, evil (in its various forms of human suffering and violence) seems to be coming close to triumphing over good. But evil never has won and it won't.

We have been promised that the gates of Hell shall never prevail against us and I feel sure we can rely on that. So let us be glad about the coming of 2005. After all, everyone who lives in this part of Yorkshire is among a highly privileged tiny minority of the world's population - much richer, much healthier, much happier (generally) than billions of the starving poor and disease-ravaged around the world.

And - this is the most fantastic part! - we live in what is without doubt the most beautiful, special and absolutely marvellous nation on Earth. We have seen in another New Year in England, God's own country. How great is that? Love from, Steve (your King in exile).

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