New Year's Prayer

"Heavenly Father, for this coming year

Just one request I bring.

I do not pray for happiness or any earthly thing.

I do not ask to understand the way you lead me;

But this I ask—teach me to do the thing that pleases

I want to know Your guiding voice,

To walk with you each day.

Walking blindly in your holy will

As you lead me along the way

Heavenly Father,

Make me swift to hear and ready to obey;

And thus the new year I soon begin

A happy year will be for me,

When I serve you from deep within.