end of year prayer
Lord, God, owner of time and eternity, yours is today and tomorrow, the past and the future. At the end of this year I want to thank you for everything I received from YOU.
Thank you for life and love, for flowers, air and sun, for joy and pain, for what was possible and for what could not be.
I offer you how much I did this year, the work I was able to do and the things that passed through my hands and what I was able to build with them.
I present to you the people that I have loved throughout these months, the new friends and the old loves, those closest to me and those who are farthest away, those who gave me their hand and those I was able to help, with the that I shared life, work, pain and joy.
But also, Lord, today I want to ask you for forgiveness, forgiveness for wasted time, for money wasted, for useless words and wasted love. Sorry for the empty works and for the work poorly done, and sorry for living without enthusiasm.
Also for the prayer that little by little I was postponing and that until now I come to present to you. For all my forgetfulness, oversights and silences again I ask your forgiveness.
In the next few days we will start a new year and I stop my life before the new calendar still unopened and I present to you these days that only YOU know if I will live them.
Today I ask for myself and mine peace and joy, strength and prudence, clarity and wisdom.
I want to live each day with optimism and kindness carrying everywhere a heart full of understanding and peace.
You close my ears to all falsehood and my lips to lying, selfish, scathing or hurtful words.
Open instead my being to everything that is good that my spirit is filled only with blessings and spill them in my path.
Fill me with goodness and joy so that those who live with me or come close to me find a little bit of YOU in my life.
Give us a happy year and teach us to spread happiness. Amen
End of year prayer from a bewildered believer
Lord, before entering the hustle and bustle of the end of the year, I want to meet you this afternoon slowly and calmly.
There are few times that I do it. You know that I no longer succeed in praying. I have forgotten those prayers that I was taught as a child and I have not learned to speak with you in a more lively and concrete way.
Lord, actually, I don’t really know if I believe in you anymore. So much has happened these years. Life has changed so much and I have grown so old inside… I would like to feel you more alive and closer. It would help me believe. But it’s all so hard for me…
And yet, Lord, I need you. Sometimes I feel really bad inside of me. Years go by and I feel the wear and tear of life. On the outside, everything seems to be going well: work, family, children. Anyone would envy me. But I don’t feel good.
A year has passed. Tonight we will start a new year, but I know that everything will remain the same. The same problems, the same concerns, the same jobs. And so, until when?
How I wish I could renew my life from within! Find in me a new joy, a different strength to live each day. Change, be better with myself and with everyone. But experience tells me that I can’t expect big changes. I am too used to a lifestyle. I myself don’t believe too much in my transformation.
On the other hand, you know how I let myself get carried away by the turmoil of each day. Maybe that’s why I rarely meet you. You are inside me and I am almost always outside myself. You are with me and I am lost in a thousand things.
If only I felt like my best friend… Sometimes I think that would change everything. What joy if I didn’t have that kind of fear of you that I don’t know where it springs from, but that distances me so much from you…
Lord, record well in my heart that you can only feel love and tenderness towards me. Remind me from within that you accept me as I am, with my mediocrity and my sin, and that you love me even if I don’t change.
Lord, my life is passing me by, and sometimes, I think that my great sin is not to finish believing in you and in your love. That’s why tonight I don’t ask you for things.
Only that you awaken my faith, enough to believe that you are always close and accompany me.
That throughout this new year I do not get too far from you. May I know how to find you in my sufferings and my joys. Then maybe I’ll change. It will be a new year.
With these prayers, I wish you a very happy new year.
Javier Lopez
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