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One of my many memories of Christmases past is from 1968. It was hearing the astronaut and commander of Apollo 8, Colonel Frank Borman, reading the opening words of the book of Genesis as his spacecraft and its three-man crew orbited the Moon and he looked down on this “good earth”. This was the precursor

“It is not a shallow thing, this hope. It is the hope that remains when more superficial hopes have gone. It is the hope that we don’t even know we have when life is hard and cruel. It is the hope that underpins our life and survives our death, carrying our love to those who…