There is something absolutely magical about a New Year—that clean slate, the opportunity to do things better or differently to the way they were done last year. There is something wonderful about putting up a crisp, clean calendar and carefully writing in those first new appointments. It is a time when we reflect back on the year before and vow to pray more, read more, give more, spend more time with the children, with your loved ones, with the LORD.
Lamentations 3:22-23 says that “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙨; 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙙; 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜; 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.” Our LORD doesn’t just give you a clean slate at the beginning of a New Year, but every single day of the week! His love for you is new every day. It never, ever ceases. There is no end to His mercies!
As you sit back and reflect on what this New Year will bring, allow God to take His pen and begin to write your story on your clean slate. Remember that He will give you a new one whenever you ask for it! His mercy is new every morning and He is faithful—so very faithful!
Claire's Prayer 