Happy New Year From Our House To Yours

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May God make your year a happy one!

Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain

But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes

Not by making your path easy

But by making you sturdy to travel any path

Not by taking hardships from you

But by taking fear from your heart

Not by granting you unbroken sunshine

But by keeping your face bright,

even in the shadows

Not by making your life always pleasant

But by showing you

when people and their causes need you most

and by making you anxious to be there to help.

God’s love, peace, hope and joy

to you for the year ahead.

New Year’s Prayer

Anonymous

Heavenly Father,

for this coming year just one request I bring. I do not pray for happiness or any earthly thing.

I do not ask to understand the way you lead me

But this I ask—

teach me to do the thing that pleases You.

I want to know Your guiding voice,

to walk with you each day. Heavenly Father,

make me swift to hear and ready to obey.

And thus the year I now begin

a happy year will be, If I am seeking just to do

the thing that pleases You.