Begin the Year With Courage

Author: Mary Wilder
Tileston
Source: Joy and Strength
Scripture Reference 1
Chronicles 28:20 Romans
7:6

Begin the Year With
Courage

Be strong and of good courage ... fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord
God, even my God, will be with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake
thee.
1 CHRONICLES 28:20

That we should serve in newness of spirit.
ROMANS 7:6

HELP us, O Lord! behold we enter
Upon another year today;
In Thee our
hopes and thoughts now centre,
Renew our courage for the way;
New life,
new strength, new happiness,
We ask of Thee; oh, hear, and bless !

JOHANN RIST

THE year begins; and all its pages are as blank as the silent years of the
life of Jesus Christ. Let us begin it with high resolution; then let us take all
its limitations, all its hindrances, its disappointments, its narrow and
common-place conditions, and meet them as the Master did in Nazareth, with
patience, with obedience, putting ourselves in cheerful subjection, serving our
apprenticeship. Who knows what opportunity may come to us this year? Let us live
in a great spirit, then we shall be ready for a great occasion.

GEORGE HODGES

Walk cheerfully and freely in God's service.

ST. TERESA

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