It's been cloudy

I just want to take a moment to pray. The year is not starting out too good and I am somewhat afraid of what could lie ahead since this is only the 15th day of the New Year. It's been certainly very cloudy and inasmuch as I feel the devil is trying to test my wits, to make me waiver and push me to hating everything around me, including myself; I still feel some certain words of prayer need to be said to commit this year into God's hands. I don't want to fall into those traps that life sets for us, I know it cannot be rosy all the time, but for those of us with very little to be rosy about, we count on the ho-hum nothingness to guide us through as opposed to ho-hum craziness. I would love to recount these very few and certainly troubling 15 days but let's not rehash the bad news, let's keep it simple at best by saying:

Lord bless me in this New Year, 2008. Protect me from all evil, let no evil come upon me, let me not deal it to anyone. Do not grant my enemies unsurpassed power against me. Grant that I may not hate or despise or fall short of God's love in this New Year. Keep me strong in my loneliness. Let my words be words of love and goodness, let me be strong in the faith and love of our Lord and let me hold fast, always trusting and believing, never faltering, armored with the breastplate of Christ, weathering the storm that is this life, that your love shall be with me through the hard times that may come, and wipe away my tears as I face the turmoil that is inevitable. Your Grace and Mercy always.

Your daughter, anita