Let me close with a poem that was read out at the Queen Mother’s funeral; which I think sums up the Christian faith very well.
"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year. “Give me a light that I may tread safely
into the unknown.”
And he replied: “Go out into the darkness
and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light
and safer than a known way!”
So I went forth and finding the Hand of God
trod gladly into the night."
M. Louise Haskins (1875-1957)