New Year's Prayer

 

New Year's Resolution-prayer

Posting the annual New Year's Card

(one that belonged to my Grandparents)

People used to send New Year's cards with words of 

thankfulness and encouragement inside!

Let us not be like wisemen 

Leaving gifts that we forget 

Bending to pick up again 

Hope’s cast-offs of fear and dread 

Let us not return to drink 

From the cesspools of this world 

After we bowed at the brink 

Of Living Water unfurled 

Let us not forget the joys 

We embraced on Christmas Eve 

When we return to life’s noise 

Let us still hope and believe 

Let us not return to hills 

To tend flocks of careworn earth 

And forget the song that spilled 

When angels announced His birth 

Let us keep the love we feel 

As we kneel in Bethlehem 

Let us hope in Who is real 

In Thy precious name, amen 

© Janet Martin