I Am the New Year

I am unused, unspotted, without blemish.

I stretch before you three hundred sixty-five days long. I will present each day in its turn, a new leaf in the Book of Life for you to place upon it your imprint.

It remains for you to make me what you will; if you write with firm, steady strokes, my pages will be a joy to look upon when the next New Year comes. If the pen falters, if uncertainty, doubt or sin mars the page, it will become a day to remember with pain.

I am the New Year. During each hour of the three hundred sixty- five days, I will give you sixty minutes that have never known the use of man. White and pure, I present them; it remains for you to fill them with sixty jewelled seconds of love, hope, endeavour, patience and trust in God.

I am the New Year; I am here, but once past, I can never be recalled.

Make me your best!

~ author unknown

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