January 1 Prayer

January 2021 Prayers

A Blessing for the New Year

The first day of a new year,
clear and bright outside my window
light shines on the blue and white
sea that calls come and see;

Come and venture out into the vast open space
where your soul has grown and your heart has shifted

Spread out you arms expanse
to live cruciform

Allow your feet to take those new steps of an unknown dance
Release your vocal chords to sing out a new melody
never sung before

Let your full humanity resonate with God’s divinity
waiting to empower
you from on high,
to be a ‘Theotokos’

faith, hope and love, these three
wrapped up into one
One Father, One Son, One Holy Spirit

Come and see and let the waves of the three wash over you
Come and take a look at the treasures
that you found tossed upon the shore
from the passing storm

Don’t be so rash in throwing it all away to enter something new
for darkness and light are a part of it all
even this past year of 2020

Lean into where your soul has grown and
where you find yourself now wanting to go

Hold them together for no matter how
hard you try to leave your struggles behind
they will travel with you

So take the time and welcome them as treasures before the One
that holds your future

Walk boldly and humbly into the new year
knowing that you are human,
knowing that you are beloved
of the Divine~

‘Holy Spirit we ask you to be the one that fills us and empowers us and
sends us out into the new year.

May we see things both as they really are and also as they could be
through your wisdom,

may we grow even more into your image

Through Jesus, the holy one
we pray.’

Amen