Toward A New Dawn
A Prayer for the New Year
At the beginning of this New Year, I'd like to share a prayer that comes to us from another continent. May your weekend be blessed with enough of what you really need, season by season, day by day.
I have no other helper than you, no other father, I pray to you.
Only you can help me. My present misery is too great.
Despair grips me, and I am at my wit’s end.
O Lord, Creator, Ruler of the World, Father,
I thank you that you have brought me through.
How strong the pain was — but you were stronger.
How deep the fall was – but you were even deeper.
How dark the night was – but you were the noonday sun in it.
You are our father, our mother, our brother, and our friend. Amen.--An African prayer
Ben Keckler
01.05.09
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