New Year Prayer

A New Year’s Broom

O God,

You are ever-new

and

forever ageless.
Bless

your people

who live in space

and

time as we begin

a new year.
Make us new.
May this

New Year’s Broom

sweep clean this house

of last year’s grudges
and reservations

and any

residual acts

of unkindness.
Sweep cle an our home

of old dusty routines,

of tired ruts

and dead-end patterns,
which prevent us

from a greater love

of each other and of You.
May this New Year’s Broom

sweep from our hearts

all fears and angry memories
and the pieces of broken dreams.
May our hearts,

now swept clean,

have room

for fresh new dreams,
for all the

beginnings of the new year,
with which you, our God

 have gifted us.
Let the New Year

rich with

God’s holy blessings

now come into our lives.

Amen.