A New Year's Prayer about Newness to Battle the New Year Letdown
2008! New Year's Eve, New Year's Day have come and gone. As normalcy descends upon us, its probably inevitable to feel some sense of letdown that the world, and our lives, really didn't change much in the last two days. All the hype, all the hubbub...was it all worth it? I always get a bit of that feeling around January 2nd, don't you? It's kind of like the two disciples on the Emmaus Road, though on a smaller scale. Great expectations dashed. Or are they?
I prayed this prayer this morning. And it helped.
Almighty Father, maker and lover of the world.
You have made all things new through the gift of Your Son,
And yet You continue to promise to make all things new by the gift of Your Spirit.
Forgive us for looking past You, for marginalizing You over the past few days,
Forgive us for looking to numbers, to milestones of time, for the hope of newness,
Rather than looking to You, the creator of time, the basis of our hope for newness.
Be always in our hearts and in our minds this year,
Until next New Years approaches, so that we might then rightly view that celebration as what it is, a symbol of the hope that is rightfully only in You.
Let us never again be tempted to misguidedly hope in the symbol,
But always on You, the Creator of all things, even symbols.
Amen.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
I prayed this prayer this morning. And it helped.
Almighty Father, maker and lover of the world.
You have made all things new through the gift of Your Son,
And yet You continue to promise to make all things new by the gift of Your Spirit.
Forgive us for looking past You, for marginalizing You over the past few days,
Forgive us for looking to numbers, to milestones of time, for the hope of newness,
Rather than looking to You, the creator of time, the basis of our hope for newness.
Be always in our hearts and in our minds this year,
Until next New Years approaches, so that we might then rightly view that celebration as what it is, a symbol of the hope that is rightfully only in You.
Let us never again be tempted to misguidedly hope in the symbol,
But always on You, the Creator of all things, even symbols.
Amen.
Grace and Peace,
Raffi
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