New Year Prayers – New Year Festival

As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends.

Let us release our grudges, our anger and our pains, for these are nothing but binding chains. Let us live each day in the most loving ways, the God-conscious way. Let us serve all who are in need, regardless of race, color or creed.

Let us keep God of our own understanding in our hearts and to chant God’s name each day. Let us lead the world from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from wrong to right.

Let us remember that we are all one, embracing all, discriminating against none.

May your year be filled with peace, prosperity and love. May God’s blessings shower upon you and bestow upon each of you a bright, healthy and peaceful new year.
Reverend Marcy “Melchezedek Order”

Dear Lord

Dear Lord, as I close the door on this old year,I ponder on the things I’ve done…on the things I’ve said and the joys I’ve had…

then I wonder, have I lost or won?

I’ve thought of the new friends I have made,and of the old ones staunch and true…the path of the old year was made easier Lord,

because I have walked it with You.

I think of all the many times,when my burdens were so heavy to bear,and how my faith slipped away from me…

but somehow You were always standing there.

Now as I open the door to this New Year,and carefully peep inside,I wonder what it holds for me…

but I’ll throw the door open wide

And whatever it brings to me and mine,I’ll meet it with a heart so true…I know that, Lord whate’er it may beYou’ll be there to carry me through.

Mrs. Merrel Thompson

A New Year’s Prayer

Another year is dawningWith the chance to start anew.May I be kinder, wiser, Lord,

In all I say and do.

Not so caught up in selfish gainThat I would fail to seeThe things in life that mean the most

Cost not a fancy fee.

The warm, kind word that I can give,The outstretched hand to help,The prayers I pray for those in need–

More precious these than wealth.

I know not what may lie aheadOf laughter or of tears;I only need to know each day

That You are walking near.

I’m thankful for this brand new yearAs now I humbly pray,My hand secure in Yours, dear Lord,Each step along the way.

Kay Hoffman

A New Year’s Poem for Christians

Instead of making a New Year’s resolutionConsider committing to a biblical solutionYour promises are easily brokenEmpty words, though earnestly spokenBut God’s Word transforms the soulBy His Holy Spirit making you wholeAs you spend time alone with HimHe will change you from within

Mary Fairchild

New Year Prayer

God grant us this year a wider view,So we see others’ faults through the eyes of You.Teach us to judge not with hasty tongue,

Neither the adult … nor the young.

Give us patience and grace to endureAnd a stronger faith so we feel secure.Instead of remembering, help us forget

The irritations that caused us to fret.

Freely forgiving for some offenseAnd finding each day a rich recompense.In offering a friendly, helping hand

And trying in all ways to understand;

That all of us whoever we are …Are trying to reach an unreachable star.For the great and small … the good and bad,

The young and old … the sad and glad

Are asking today; Is life worth living?The answer is only in, loving and giving.For only Love can make man kind

And Kindness of Heart brings Peace of Mind.

By giving love, we can start this yearTo lift the clouds of hate and fear.

Helen Steiner Rice