- Prayers for Occasions
- New Year
- Thanksgiving for the Birth of a Child
- Easter
- Harvest
- Remembrance Sunday
- Church Occasions
- Gap Year
- School Occasions
- Baptism and Confirmation
- Saying Grace
- Family Occasions
- Moving House
- Birthdays
- A Wedding
- A Funeral
New Year
I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
And he replied,
'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'
Minnie Louise Harkins
King George VI quoted this excerpt in his 1939 Christmas speech, as Britain prepared for another war.
Lord of time and eternity,
we stand on the threshold of a new year.
Strengthen our resolve
to dedicate our lives afresh in your service
leaving behind all that would distort your image within us
and lead us astray.
Keep us in peace,
guide us in justice,
sustain us through all this year may bring,
for in you is our hope and our salvation,
our lasting joy and fulfilment
through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Ian Black, Prayers for all Occasions.
