Prayer for the New Year

Just One Request

Dear Master, 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 Thou leadest me,

But this I ask: teach me to do

The thing that pleaseth Thee.

I want to know Thy guiding voice,

To walk with Thee each day.

Dear Master, make me swift to hear

And ready to obey.

And thus the year I now begin

A happy year will be -

If I am seeking just to do

The thing that pleaseth Thee."

-Unknown