(ii)  For example resolve to spend an extra hour a week in church; get up an hour earlier; apply for a part-time job (married women); offer to assist a youth organisation; seek out a job where your abilities will be fully used.  Increase your giving to the church or a charity, or both.

(iii)  Instant conversion is possible for some; for other pilgrims advance must be gradual but continuous.  Business experts have found that measurable targets are a great help, for example:

(a)  resolve to increase your study of the Bible by an extra 10 minutes a week every month for a year.  By the end of the year you will have increased it by 2 hours a week;

(b)  resolve to write an extra letter a week for a month, and then another extra one each succeeding month.  By the end of the year you will be writing 12 extra letters a week, and giving fresh pleasure over 600 times a year;

(c)  resolve to reduce your smoking by one cigarette a day every week, and put the money saved aside.  By the end of the year a 50-a-day smoker will have given up completely and could have over £200 a year available for other purposes.

(iv) For example study for a diploma in child care; take evening classes in home decorating; obtain books from the library on home nursing or speaking a foreign language; join a Bible class.

(v)  There will be many changes in a year; each of us will be older; we may not have the strength to help our neighbours as much as before, but we may have more time, and perhaps more talents.

We may be richer or poorer; inflation may have eaten away the value of our giving, or changed needs made a switch in direction desirable.