A New Year’s prayer by George Pettus…

Father, I shout out your name in praise and adoration as I awake this morning… Hallelujah, Hosanna! As we enter into this New Year together, I am humbled to call you Father and to know that I am truly a child of God. A New Year is typical of a new day with you Father; each day starts anew, with new beginnings, new challenges, new dawnings, new friends, new love, and new faith… May we embrace all of these each day, may we cherish sharing these with you and with our neighbor, may we wrap our arms around this New Year and welcome it, sing with it, know that YOU are in it and will use us in a mighty way if we just walk with you… Thank you Father, thank you for blessing us in 2013, for showing us the way, for loving us in spite of, and loving us SO much you would bring us into a New Year with new plans for even bigger and better things. Thank you, Father, that I might be a part of it all.