A New Year Prayer
Our Holy Father,
God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows.
Help us in Your new year, Father, to fret less and laugh more.
Help us, Father, to hear Your love song in every sunrise,
We rejoice in the world You loved into being.
Forgive us for falling short this past year.
We accept Your gift of a new year and we rejoice in what's ahead,
In Jesus name, We pray,
Amen
We praise You for Your unequaled greatness.
Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead.
To teach our children to laugh by laughing with them.
To teach others to love by loving them.
Knowing, when Love came to the stable in Bethlehem, He came for us.
So that Love could be with us, and we could know You.
That we could share Love with others.
in the chirping of sparrows in our backyards,
in the stories of our old folks, and the fantasies of our children.
Help us to stop and listen to Your love songs,
so that we may know You better and better.
Thank You for another new year and for new chances every day.
We pray for peace, for light, and for hope, that we might spread them to others.
We leave the irreparable past in your hands,
and step out into the unknown new year knowing You will go with us.
depending on You to help us do exactly what You want.
Source: Saju C Varghese, New Delhi, India
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