prayer for the new
- Greg and Corinne
- Jan 1, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 20, 2024
Hi friends!
You may have seen a version or two of this prayer on Facebook or Instagram in recent years. It continues to morph as the landscape of our souls and the world change. We're offering you a couple alternative phrases in parentheses for you to try on as you make this prayer your own. Or maybe you'd like to go even further and pray this in your own words.
Jesus
we give You
last year
with its close calls
rescues
traps and sorrows
collapses and renewals
crises and joys
stains and scars
we give You this new year
with its caution and expectancy
we lift it high up to You
when it has barely broken the horizon
take it up into Your hands
along with our uncertain
yet grateful souls
look it over with Your kind eyes
trim away the excess
the chaos
the reticence
as we poise at the gate
fueled with hope (or cobbling together glimmers of hope)
blackened with the burn marks from last year
but with new wisdom etched in our souls
somehow, we are ready to go again
as the planet is ready for a new revolution
around the sun
there is much to learn
adventures to welcome and not to fear (or, amid the fear)
believing You post Your angels everywhere
and that the same providence
that steered us through the cataclysm of pain and loss
is still present
ever aware
on the watch
and worthy of our second-by-second trust
walk with us into the next, O God
into the rising new year
even though
our knees are shaking a little from the old one.
May you feel held by God's love, immersed in His peace, strengthened by His grace, and fully known and seen by Him. He is always with you.
With much love,
Greg & Corinne
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Oh, my goodness - what a beautiful, humble and truthful prayer to our Lord for our New Year. Such an exquisite portrayal of our hearts, I believe in community and individually as we process our past and look forward with hesitancy, as you indicate, to our future. Thank you for your gifts, for your words so eloquently linked and for your hearts for Jesus Christ, our Lord. Blessings and health to both of you in this New Year. "God bless us everyone"....:) Love, Mag