The account of Balaam in Numbers 22-24 is a strange one - a prophet of God, hired by Balak, King of Moab, to curse God's people but who finds of course that those whom God has blessed cannot be cursed - by anyone!

I don't know about your year but this one has been hard for many of those in Desiring Truth. A year of sickness, attack, opposition, tragedy - a year of hopes seemingly dashed, a year of times when the darkness threatened to become so all-encompassing that the light seemed hard to find.