A NEW YEAR’S BLESSING

A Prayer To Follow This Post
Father we are filled with inexpressible hope as we stand on the threshold of the New Year. You have made to us the most heart-warming of all promises : “Behold I make all things new.” A new beginning, to replace all our failed efforts to make this world a more peaceful and beautiful place for all? Another new hope springing up within our souls that we may reach out in love to embrace our sisters and brothers of every nation, creed and color? A renewed hope that human hands may form a solid chain of respect and love around the world, so that each person may feel the hug of God and be comforted and never be afraid again?

Father , on this cold frosty morning , we experience the warmth of Your loving embrace  and we know that You are replacing all of our broken promises to You, with a greater ; effort to do better ; all of our missed opportunities, with Your consuming love; all of our lethargy, with renewed passion!
O God You are the author of ever experience of love that we know in life. We now give a new expression to the greatest blessing we own: Our love to You.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Amen.

Editorial Notes

Old Testament Reading from The Holy Bible. KJV. Ecclesiastes  3:1-8  and  1 Corinthians 5:17

“The Gate Of The Year”  is an excerpt  from a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_the_Year

Prayer to follow this reading by Franklin D. Curtis