A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR In this New Year I want to offer you an open door to my heart for you to enter and make your home there. I offer you my heart’s hopes and dreams, Lord, for this new year of grace: my pledge to pray more regularly; my desire to grow in your love; my need to rely on your wisdom and word; my promise to ask for your help each day; my hope to be more forgiving of those who offend me, more faithful in serving others’ needs, more welcoming of those who are alone. I offer you this new year of grace, Lord, and ask for the strength and resolve I need to live it as one worthy of the name Christian, ready for the work of a disciple, confident of your presence in everything I do and in all I meet and know. I offer you the New Year ahead, Lord - one day at a time. AMEN Bishop Blaire sends his blessing for this new year of grace.