A New Year Prayer

[chuck]

From my heart.

Oh Great Yahweh,

For the year passed... gratitude.
For the failures...
cover them with your grace and forgiveness...
please?

For opportunities granted to have stood in your stead...
with you present and moving...
... amazement.

The new stretches forth broad and deep.
Like standing on the shore... staring...
across a vast sea of...
delight... yet... unknown.

The warm, gentle surf gurgles
and laughs beneath our feet...
beckoning... step in...
fear not.

We are humbled at the sure challenges...
Terrified by the crisis...
Crushed with grief and pain...
We are desperate...

Yet... we enter in with trust and trembling confidence...
that you will be...
glorious.

Ride the winds...
Shout the waves...
Shake the foundations...

... and hold these feeble hands.

For your sake alone...

I pray...

with these joyful chains.

chuck

[Susan in Ca.]

Beautiful prayer, Chuck! Thanks for sharing your gift with us!

Susan

[doninmi]

Your creativity has given us another gift. Thanks, Chuck

[salsa]

You have SUCH a way with words! thank you for posting that.