ANOTHER YEAR!

Another year! Another chance
To make the golden moments dance
With zest for life and happiness;
Another quest for right success;
Another chance to recognize
The things wherein true value lies.

Another year for doing good;
For living love and brotherhood;
To aid world peace by starting here
To conquer prejudice and fear.
Another chance - that the ideal
May come, through us, to be the real!

Another year to feast the more
On God's great beauty at our door;
Another year, unto the end,
To qualify as someone's friend,
Farewell, old year! We leave you here.
New faith........new hopes........another year!

Dear Lord, give me courage to walk quietly into this new year.
Give me wisdom, Lord.....that I may see, the hidden path you have for me.
Give me patience and quiet grace, to run with Your strength, this earthly race.
Give me compassion and a loving heart
And words of comfort that I can impart
To a soul that is hurting and bowed with care,
That you, dear Lord will always be there.
And when each day ends, let me humbly see,
How tenderly and lovingly, you have cared for me!