prayer for the new year

restore our life to us, O God. give us new. reveal the horizon of our destiny. glimmer our souls with hopefulness and purpose. lay out a pathway before us. inspire us. feed us. win us. chase us. woo us. give us Love to overflow so that we may run and never cease to ask for more.

thank you for establishing the tunnel beneath our hearts that connect us one to the other with or without us sharing speech, laughter, or tears.

for the path that is lit for us in someone else's eyes.

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i gave Everything and hated You for it.  forgive me.

                                                 have Mercy.

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           i want to deepen, carve out the
           inner well of my soul so that
              i breathe the same air, so
       that the fingertips of my
     being
        graze, grasp, whisper,
  caress the roots of the

Tree of Life.