New Year Prayers-with thanks to Ian Paul.
God Knows- Minnie Louise Haskins, a
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
What need our little life
If God hath comprehension?
Of things both high and low,
God hideth His intention.
Is best. The stretch of years
Are clear to God. Our fears
All time hath full provision.
God moves to lift the veil
When, as the sweeter features
Of Life’s stern face we hail,
God’s thought around His creatures
Ring out, wild bells- Lord Alfred Tennyson-
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Ring out the bells, and let the people hear
let hearts be open now, and faith draw near;
receive the grace that only God can give
by word and symbol feed and grow and live.
Ring out the bells, and let the people sing
through changing seasons to our changeless King:
all perfect gifts are sent us from above
respond with praises for such faithful love.
Ring out the bells until that glorious day
when death shall die and sin be done away:
then comes our God so everyone shall see
let all the bells ring out in victory!
A new year poem by Arthur Bennett
Length of days does not profit me
except the days are passed in Thy presence,
in Thy service, to Thy glory.
Give me a grace that precedes, follows, guides,
sustains, sanctifies, aids every hour,
that I may not be one moment apart from Thee,
but may rely on Thy Spirit
build up every mote of faith,
to show forth Thy praise;
I launch my bark on the unknown waters of this year,
with Thee, O Father as my harbour,
Thee O Holy Spirit, filling my sails.
Guide me to heaven with my loins girt,
my ear open to Thy calls,
Give me They grace to sanctify me,
Thy presence to stabilize.
Disturb us, Lord-Francis Drake
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
With the abundance of things we possess
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
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