We have a new Government, which has a list of our essential needs to satisfy. Our needs are very great with impending climate change, possible nuclear annihilation and fuel and energy poverty.
But deeper than this, we are suddenly aware that there is a hunger and thirst for love, a love which transcends material concerns and reaches the inner depths of each person. We have already been given this in Jesus but this gift is so buried in political and religious conflict that we no longer realise how fundamental his loving person is.