Pray it Off 01/05/2012 SESSION 9 - A New Year Prayer

A New Year Prayer

God of our yesterdays, our today, and our tomorrows,
we praise you for your greatness.

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

Help us in the new year to fret less and laugh more,
to teach our children to laugh by laughing with them,
to teach others to love by loving them.

Help us to hear your love song in every sunrise,
in the chirping of sparrows in our backyard,
in the stories of old folks and the fantasies of children.

We rejoice in the world you loved into being.
Thank you for another new year and for new chances every day.

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

We leave the past in your hands and step out into the new year,
knowing you will go with us.

We accept your gift of a new year and we rejoice in what's ahead.
We depend on you to help us do exactly what you want.

We rejoice in Jesus' name. Amen.
Fr. Dave Casey, S.J., Chaplain to the Alumni