WHAT WILL THE NEW YEAR BRING
A new year has just begun, so, what will befall?
What will this new year bring? Can we tell at all?
We have no way of knowing what is around the bend
In our road in life, or what each new hour will send.
Meet it with a glad heart, whatever the year will bring,
For if we know and love the Lord our hearts will sing
And rejoice for all the blessings and the trials that come,
Every trial received with a good heart is a blessing won.
A new year that is full of happiness, no trials in life
Would seem a perfect gift from God, if no strife,
But let us stop and meditate at the start of the new year
And pray for the things that help us draw God near.
A Happy New Year is wished all around the world
Health and wealth and happiness, many joys unfurled,
This are all well and good and needed in good measure,
Love within the home and shelter from the bad weather.
But what I hope this coming year for me and those I love
Is to be lead and blessed by what the Lord sends from above,
And the strength and wisdom to endure to the very end,
And know that whatever happens on my Lord I can depend.
So though I wish all a happy new year, I also want to say,
May those I love have the strength to listen and obey
To what the Lord would have them do to live in heaven above,
And so our lives be always blessed by His everlasting love.
M Ann Margetson © January 1, 2001
2001/1064Newyear