Happy New Year everyone!  Hoping this year is blessed beyond your imagination.

I’m working some overtime this morning from 0600-1000 and the going home to nap before coming back to work 1800-0600.  I had to do all my cooking yesterday afternoon.  I made meatballs, fried cabbage, black eye peas, and stuffed green peppers.  I’ll make some cornbread when I get home.  I’m already getting hungry, lol.

Here is a prayer I’d like to share for the new year:

Grant me the strength from day to day to bear what burdens come my way.

Grant me throughout this bright New Year more to endure and less to fear.

Help me live that I may be, from spite and petty malice, free.

Let me not bitterly complain when cherished hopes of mine prove vain,

Or spoil with deeds of hate and rage some fair tomorrow’s spotless page.

Lord, as the days shall come and go in courage let me stronger grow.

Lord, as the New Year dawns today help me to put my faults away.

Let me be big in little things; Grant me the joy which friendship brings.

Keep me from selfishness and spite; Let me be wise in what is right.

A Happy New Year! Grant that I may bring no tear to any eye.

When this New Year in time shall end let it be said I’ve played the friend,

Have lived and loved and labored here, and made of it a happy year.

–Edgar A. Guest