Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a blessed and peaceful Christmas break. Instead of discussing a recent parenting article, I wanted to offer a prayer for the new year. I found one from Billy Graham that was first published in 2008. It is kind of scary that it fits today as much as it did nine years ago. I look at it as an affirmation to continue to pray it!
Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year
we confess our need of Your presence and Your guidance as we face the
future.
We each have our hopes and expectations for the year that is ahead of
us—but You alone know what it holds for us, and only You can give us
the strength and the wisdom we will need to meet its challenges. So help
us to humbly put our hands into Your hand, and to trust You and to seek
Your will for our lives during this coming year.
In the midst of life’s uncertainties in the days ahead, assure us of the certainty of Your unchanging love.
In the midst of life’s inevitable disappointments and heartaches,
help us to turn to You for the stability and comfort we will need.
In the midst of life’s temptations and the pull of our stubborn
self-will, help us not to lose our way but to have the courage to do
what is right in Your sight, regardless of the cost.
And in the midst of our daily preoccupations and pursuits, open our
eyes to the sorrows and injustices of our hurting world, and help us to
respond with compassion and sacrifice to those who are friendless and in
need. May our constant prayer be that of the ancient Psalmist: “Teach
me, O Lord, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end”
(Psalm 119:33).
We pray for our nation and its leaders during these difficult times,
and for all those who are seeking to bring peace and justice to our
dangerous and troubled world. We pray especially for Your protection on
all those who serve in our armed forces, and we thank You for their
commitment to defend our freedoms, even at the cost of their own lives.
Be with their families also, and assure them of Your love and concern
for them.
Bring our divided nation together,
and give us a greater vision of what You would have us to be. Your Word
reminds us that “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm
33:12).
As we look back over this past year we thank You for Your goodness to
us—far beyond what we have deserved. May we never presume on Your past
goodness or forget all Your mercies to us, but may they instead lead us
to repentance, and to a new commitment to make You the foundation and
center of our lives this year.
And so, our Father, we thank You for the promise and hope of this new
year, and we look forward to it with expectancy and faith. This I ask
in the name of our Lord and Savior, who by His death and resurrection
has given us hope both for this world and the world to come.
This was taken from the Saturday Evening Post, in 2008.
The K-3 Campus will focus on "Imitating Christ in All Things." The stories read there will reflect on ways that we can each imitate Christ in our daily lives. The 4th grade will focus on "Respect Others." The 5th grade will continue the bullying series titled "Weird." The 6th grade will be back in the computer lab to further develop their ILPs. Last month, each student was sent home their username and password as well as a detailed instruction sheet on how to log on the the KHEAA website.
As always, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. I can be reached at (270)-684-7583 or (270)-683-6989. My email address is kim.bennett@owensborocatholic.org
Monday, January 2, 2017
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