Loving God
You hold our times in your hands
We thank you for being with us this last year
For your leading and guidance
For your abiding presence in the good and bad
Your care in the mundane and the crisis
For your provision and protection
For what we have learned and how we have grown
We acknowledge your goodness at the dawn of this new year
With the hope of fresh start and clean slate we confess our sin
Forgive us for the things we
have done wrong
Forgive us for the relationships that lie broken around us
Restore us to you and reconcile us to each other
Thank you that you hear our prayer and are faithful and just
That
Gracious God
We stand at the start of this new year with both expectation and trust
Aware of the challenges and opportunities before us
Aware of the possibility of both sadness and joy
New starts and fresh vision and vigour
Aware of the ongoing continuity
and commitments of the past
We know you will be with us as we face the unknown horizon
Lead us into a deeper and deeper love with you
As we become aware of all you have done for us in Christ Jesus
As you open up your scriptures and speak into our lives
Fill our lives afresh with your Holy Spirit
Thank you that what you have started in us
You will bring to completion in your time
You will drawn it all together in you when you return
To your Glory. Father, son and Holy Spirit 
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