Inspiration for the New Year

Originally published Monday, 12 January 2015.

A little inspiration for our new year's aspirations, paths to be tread, dreams to be dreamed, and travels that await.

 

Dear Lord, please give me...

A few friends who understand me and yet remain my friends.

A work to do which has real value, without which the world would feel the poorer...

A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed.

An understanding heart...

A sense of humor.

Time for quiet, silent mediation.

A feeling of the presence of God.

And the patience to wait for the coming of these things, with the wisdom to know them when they come.

~W.R. Hunt

Taken from Treasured Stories of Christmas  by Guideposts

 

 

I launch my bark on the unknown waters of this year,

with thee, O Father, as my harbor,

thee, O Son at my helm,

thee, O Holy Spirit, filling my sails.

~The Valley of Vision

Roads go ever on and on,

Over rock and under tree, 

By caves where sun has never shone, 

By streams that never find the sea;

Over snow by winter sown, 

And through the merry flowers of June, 

Over grass and over stone, 

And under mountains in the moon.

Roads Go Ever On and On ~J. R.R. Tolkien

 

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand. ~Proverbs 19:21

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