new year...
happy 2009 to you and yours. O Lord G-d, creator of time itself, Enter with us into this new year. Allow us to devote our hearts, heads, hands, and souls to bringing your commonwealth on earth as it is in heaven. Help us to be about bringing about your peace, which surpasses all understanding and not count the cost, estimate the outcome, or rationalize the cost-benefit ratio of our involvement. Put us to what Thou wilt; guide our feet along the path of peace that you yourself have laid out for us in the example of your Son and his pronouncement of your coming reign. Amen.