Instead, I will ask that Your resolutions be mine.
Your path, my path. Your will, my will.
Let us walk headlong into this new year together.

God, who forms all creatures with loving hands,
bless this, our new companion animal.

Help us to commit to peace
in our dealings with one another.

Thank you for all the wonderful things
You have made:
The whole world, all the people
My home, my school, my friends, my pets.

I don’t even want to recount
what has happened
in my life this year.
I just want to be with the One
who already knows.
who knows me through and through
better than I know myself.

Give us an abundance of patience as we learn to juggle our teaching, sanitizing, distancing and masking, while trying to be attentive to the needs of our students.

Almighty God, as they walk the halls of sickness, help them to be a healing presence

May this layer of protection never be a separation of compassion.
With so many sick, help us to give quality when unable to give time.

May we see and touch every patient as if it were you.

Lord Jesus, You only have us,
to stand in for You. Make ours Your healing touch. Make ours the words You’d speak.
Make our outreach to families and loved ones the comfort and hope You’d give.
Let us be Your love.

Protect us from plummeting into the social darkness of racism, poverty and despair that a pandemic can cause.
Aid our global community as it seeks to share resources, human skills and the knowledge needed to eradicate the virus.

At times when the way ahead,
or even the next step,
seems unclear,
assure me that You know what is to come;
that You envision
a plan to prosper me and not to harm me,
to give me a future full of hope.