Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 12/27

A new year begins in just a few days

    and I’m praying, Lord,

to begin 2025 as best I can

    - so with your help!

If there’s one thing I’m sure of - it’s this:

    I can’t count on myself

        to make the changes I need to make...

 

Only with your help, Lord,

    will I change and grow and turn my heart around

    - only with your help…

You're the Lord of

    freely given pardons,

    second chances,

    clean slates,

    fresh starts

    and new beginnings

and I'm gonna need all of the above

    as I begin a new year…

Most of all, Lord, refresh and restore my hope

    that, indeed, I can make

        a new beginning, a fresh start,

and that you'll give me

    the second or hundredth chance I need

        to live as you call me to live,

        to live as I truly want to live,

        to do what I truly intend to do,

        to love as I truly desire to love,

        and to pray as I truly ought to pray…

Lord, don’t let my disappointment 

    over past, failed attempts

keep me from trusting that with your help 

    I can do, I can accomplish,

    I can realize my heart’s true desires

    and live in peace with you and with all, 

        faithful to your word…

So, make me modest in my pledges, Lord:

    let my new beginning be reasonable,

    my intentions pure and generous;

    my efforts guided by your Spirit

    and my success the fruit of your grace…

Show me, Lord, in my heart of hearts,

    what you would have me resolve;

help me persevere and follow through

    in the year that lies ahead...

Help me live the new year just one day at a time,

    each day filled  with your mercy,

        your freely given pardon

    and all the second chances,

        clean slates and fresh starts

            that fall from your heart and hand...

January 1 will be the day that you make, Lord:

    bless me and keep me as a new year dawns

and I strive once again to walk in your light, 

    in your love, in your grace and your peace….

Amen. 

 

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