Prayer at the Start of the New Year

Here’s a prayer for the New Year from Rev. Abi.

New Year’s Prayer

We begin our new year with you,
Hoping that this year will be different and be better than last year.
Hoping we will be better persons ourselves.
Hoping our work will be improved.
Hoping our marriages will be better.
Hoping our families will be stronger.
Lord, we place our hope in you for you are the author of our lives.

We pray for our churches

   that your spirit will be alive for all to experience you.
We pray for our country’s leaders

   that they will use wisdom in their decision making.
We pray for country that as we continue to come out of this recession

   jobs will continue to become available,

   foreclosures will continue to decline,

   and that debt will be paid down.
We pray for our world

   that relations among all your people will be better,

   that strife will cease,

   that those who hunger will be filled.

Holy Author,
We have no idea what this year holds for us,

   but we know who holds us.
And because it is you that holds us,

   we place our faith and trust in you.
Lord help us to have our eyes open to your light, your ways,

   and your presence as we go throughout this year.
Amen.

— written by Rev Abi, and posted on RevGalBlogPals. http://revgalblogpals.blogspot.ca/