Here’s lookin’ at you, 2025.

“Let us hope that what we will see in the next few years will surprise us by being less bad than we fear, and that God may show His Face and His truth in our history, in spite of human pride. And that we may reach a period of peaceful development, if it be possible.” — Thomas Merton from A Book of Hours

“We can break down or break through. We can get destroyed or get tougher, meaning capable of meeting deteriorating conditions with increasing capacities. — Brian McLaren from Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird:  it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” — C.S. Lewis

It’s hatching time.