A simple prayer for the new year

 Lord, use me in the ways that bring you delight.

Make your passions my passions. 

Renew in me your righteous cause for your name. 

Make my mouth a highway of good news. 

Open my eyes and ears to all the opportunities of repentance and forgiveness around me. 

Make my hands more eager to pray than my stomach to eat. 

Regard me with patience as I am slow to learn your ways.

Make your Word to bind my thoughts. 

Take away from me the desires of evil that have been my scourge. 

Make the glory of your goodness the aim of my existence. 

Lord, use me in the ways that bring you delight.