Prayer for the New Year by Carla Grosch-Miller,
“Be gentle with me, God.
Open the way before me.
Provide refreshment:
clear water, fresh breeze.
Still my anxious, striving mind.
Bind my aching, yearning heart.
Focus my straining, hoping energies.
Accomplish within me what You can.
Give to me
perseverance in work,
direction in darkness,
the strength to stand
and the wisdom to walk
with grace,
that I may feel
the weight
and value
of each step.”
Chorlton Unitarians 