Happy New Year

 

 

A new year has come!  It's 2024!
Things to help me remember:  2+0+2=4,  
even numbers help me to calculate ages, and printing 2024 is prettier than 2023.    

Remember when a “New Year” was pictured as a little child with a banner across his middle?  It was a picture of new beginnings, fresh and clean.  I think I will try to picture 2024 that way – at least for a little while.

So little new year, 

I’ll try to care for your days gently.
I’ll try to greet your minutes well.
I’ll value all the good you bring me,
and words of hope and joy I’ll tell. 

Because I know each year is given from
my Father’s powerful hand.
Because with every new day’s dawning
I see His glory in the land.

 So, I’ll smile at wind and weather.
I’ll rest and sleep 
when black the night.

And when the morning ends my slumber
I’ll greet
"The Everlasting Light.” 

Thank you, Father, for another year of life. 
I pray that my ways, in these days, will be pleasing to You. 

Diane