New Year 2019 - Risk again

At our New Year’s Eve church meeting, we sang Brian Doerksen’s song, ‘Lead us Lord’. ​

Here we stand          
At a crossroads again
Like You said       
In time the seasons change

Looking back   
We recall the blessing and the pain
But now we turn our hearts toward
What is still to come
We want to dream again

Lead us Lord     
Into a life of fruitfulness
Prepare our hearts to risk again
As we trust
Taking simple steps of obedience we know
That You will lead us Lord

(Copyright © 2004 Integrity's Hosanna! Music)

The line that caught my attention was, ‘Prepare our hearts to risk again’.
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We can all look back over 2018 with its successes and failures, joys and sadnesses and view 2019 with anxiety or excitement, high hopes or lack of confidence. This will depend on our response to 2018. To trust again, to plan with high expectations, to love again, might well feel like a step too far but if we stay where we are, where will we be at the end of 2019? As we go into this New Year our prayer can be that God will ‘prepare our hearts to risk again.’

Merle Sparkes

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