The New Year

A new year beginning
The old year is past.
Live this year better,
Look forward, not back.

Learn to do well--
Wash, become clean.
Use judgement, be better
In word and in deed.

Why should you be stricken
Or wounded by sin?
Reach out, feed your weary soul
Be made whole again.

Christ waits for your return
with patience and love
Turn to Him, don't despair--
He watches above.

Praise to the Lord,
The old year is past.
Now let us remember Him,
And come home at last.