​Let It Begin
A Prayer for the New Year.
                                    By Rev. Karen Munson
 
As one year’s last minutes
   tick toward the first seconds of the next,
Let courage begin
   to infiltrate the marrow of our resolve
   to be better human beings,
   one to another,
   and strengthen our spines.
Let us begin
   to be intolerant
   of anything that dismisses another as worthless,
   of words that wound
   of choices that scar. 
Let gratitude begin
   to replenish the rocky landscape
   of broken dreams and promises,
   mine and yours,
   and make fertile common ground.
Let attention begin
   to help me hear
   the persistent God-beat of compassion,
   pulsing new life into what is
   and birthing what may be.
Let my guard down
   to you, Christ, who leads me
   into the circle of your love
   where I am renewed and remade.
Let it begin,
   This moment,
   This us.