New Year

As we look back over the year just gone, it has been a good year to the extent that we have put good thoughts, good words, and good deeds into it.
None of what we have thought, said, or done need be wasted.
Both the good and the bad experiences can be profited by.
In a sense, the past is not entirely gone.
The result of it, for good or evil, is with us at the present moment.
We can only learn by experience and none of our experience is completely wasted.
We can humbly thank God for the good things of the year that has gone.

I pray that I may carry good things into the year ahead.

I pray that I may carry on with faith, with prayer, and with hope.

-- Twenty-Four Hours A Day