The New Year arrives with the celebration of a new innocence in our hearts as in a newborn child. We have prayed for forgiveness of such past errors as shame, pride and unloving, ungrateful hearts. Each moment to come is God's gift of peace, joy and blessings. Every person, place and thing is welcomed in our beingness with love and grace, knowing it is His bequest. As we release the past year, all the light, reverence and glory will remain with us as the dark, harmful wounds are left behind. The prayer of St. Francis provides inspired guidance for our fresh start in the amazing New Year.
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." St. Francis of Assisi
"Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep is His love. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3:17-19
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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