How has your year been?  Shirley Freed began the 2008 Roundtable asking us that question.  It’s true that statistically speaking (especially for those of us who attended the all-day Stats class), it would not be inconsistent to have serious pain and loss among us.  We gather together from our different paths and with our different challenges to move together as a stronger unit.  

The one constant in each of our lives is change.  My life is a testimony to that truth.  In the last two weeks my wife and I have travelled to her native country, St. Lucia, to adopt her seven year-old orphaned nephew.  In the next couple of months we will give birth to our first child.  There will be excitement, and there will be new challenges, as I seek to complete the expectations this degree has. 

We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know the One who holds it.  As we begin this Roundtable, and a new year, as great knights we create a legend that will endure for all time.