A New Year's Prayer

Greetings and Happy New Year. I want to share a prayer with you. I wish I could take credit for writing it, but I didn't. I found it on the 'net and tweeked it a bit. As always, as you celebrate the incoming of the new year be safe--remember to love one another as you love yourselves--and have some fun!
Let us pray:

Our Father,

Our God of our yesterdays, today, and our tomorrows.

We praise You for Your unequaled greatness.

Thank You for the year behind us and for the year ahead.

Help us in Your new year, Father, to fret less and laugh more.

To teach our children to laugh by laughing with them.

To teach others to love by loving them.

Knowing, when Love came to the stable in Bethlehem, He came for us.

So that Love could be with us, and we could know You.

That we could share Love with others.

Help us, Father, to see Your love song in every sunrise,

to hear Your love song in the chirping of birds,

in the stories of our old folks, and in the dreams of our children.

Help us to stop that we may see and hear Your love songs,

for in them we may know You more.

We rejoice in the world that You loved into being.

And we thank You for brand new mercies each day.

We pray for peace, for light, and for hope, that we might spread them to others.

Forgive us for falling short this past year.

We leave the irreparable past in your hands, and step out into the unknown of 2011, knowing that this new year You will go with us.

We accept Your gift of a new year and we rejoice in what's ahead, depending upon You to help us do exactly what You want.

We realize it is You who makes the impossible possible.

We rejoice in You, Father!!

It is in the power of the Sweet Holy Spirit and

In the Wonderful, Awesome, Magnificent name of Jesus

that we offer this new year's prayer

Amen.