It was no messenger or angel
             but God’s presence that saved them.
                        —Isaiah 63.9


An old year has died:
a death we welcome.
Yet in all calamity, O God,
you have been with us.
At the grave of the old year
we give our sorrows to you.

At the birth of the new year
our hope is in you:
not that someone will come along,
or that something will happen;
but that you are with us.

Into the uncertainty of what is to come
we walk with the certainty of your grace,
the mystery of your presence.
Trusting, we look to a new year
with hope and joy.

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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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