A Wish and a Prayer for the New Year and this evening

Dear Family of Love and Pilgrims on our Journey.

I honored what my body was telling me and decided to do a half a loop walk tonight and because I wanted to get home before the Wacky Jacks were out in force. I'm writing this a tad bit earlier than  usual. This evening I decided not to listen to the music but instead soak up the silence of the last day of the calendar year. Remember our New Year together will be in July so we don't have to get nostalgic and long for blogs past and everything else that comes with the completion of an orbit around the Sun or calendar page. I look to tomorrow as yet another day with lots of possibilities and new beginnings and lots of wonder as seen through the eyes of a child. This is how we all should be every second, minute, hour, of each and every day that we live!


A Wish for the New Year

I wish for you love filled to the brim to overflowing.
I wish for you Joy that will warm your heart so much that the person next to you will will be able to feel it.
I wish for you peace so that you can be an example of how to be a peacemaker.
I wish for you hope that you never lose faith and have a spirit of optimism and resilience.
I wish for you a big family like ours to enfold you with love, shoulders to cry and lean on and backs to shelter you from the storms of life.
I wish for you a time of daily unplugging and exercise.
I wish for you time with God in God's Cathedral of life.
I wish for you that every time you see a family member, remember a family member is anyone! I hope you remember this phrase "The Light of Christ in Me Recognizes the Light of Christ in You!"
I wish for you time to begin your walking program:

Here are the first steps and prayers:

We  prepare  ourselves by hydrating with the image of Living Water coursing through our veins, tying our laces securely, wrapping our bodies with God's Warm prayer coat.

We invite God on our walk using these words or your own. God we invite you as you invite us to walk with you on our journey. Enliven our spirits, quicken our steps and open our hearts as we pray and walk.Amen.

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A Prayer for the New Year!

Dear God, as we look towards the new year that is upon us help us to remember that you are walking with us on our journey and that we are never alone. Give us nudges from time to time to recognize this  and that you have knit us together as family by prayers and that this circle is ever widening and that is because of your love for us and each other. Help us to remember tonight those who are lonely and those who are in new life situations that love is the key. We thank you for the many blessings of the year past and as we look to the year ahead may we remember we walk with you and you walk with us on our journey. Amen.

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Knit a prayer circle around us Lord

Knit a prayer circle made of love.
Knit a prayer circle around us that is peaceful
Knit a prayer circle that is made of healing balm
Knit a prayer circle of life and hope and joy.
Knit a prayer circle around all the broken world that they may feel the pieces being put back together and made strong with your loving and gentle hands.
Knit us together as your family of love, peace, joy, hope, and those who show your light to the world by their words, deeds and love.

All this we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.


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Dear Ones, Have happy and safe evening tonight and know that you are loved and have a Happy New Year tomorrow.

I love you! May we continue to walk, pray, talk, give hope, make peace, bring  joy,  and give love all in the Key of Jesus!

Sara

Auld Lang Syne -Bagpipes

Happy New Year -ABBA