Daily Devotions - Monday, December 31

CLOSING OUT ANOTHER YEAR

"Looking Back and Looking Forward"

The year of 2007 is coming to a close and I want to share a prayer with you before we arrive at New Year’s Day.

Holy God,
We offer you thanks and praise
for all the surprising graces which have come to us,
for those that sustain our lives and those that change them.

--for food, familiar diets and startling new aromas and tastes;
--for homes, places of steady surroundings and settings for redemptive love;
--for friendships, old friends who are willingly open in their affection
and correction,
and new friends who remind us that your spirited presence still dwells with us
and others;

--for tasks to perform, routine actions, which we do well, and which give order to our days;
--for tasks at which we have failed and discovered a restored and needed humility;
--for all your gifts that empower us and others to live the faith-filled life.

Great and mighty God we praise your name today.
Bring your peace among us now we humbly pray. Amen.

Ben Keckler
12.31.07