It’s a time of new beginnings
To take stock of a clean slate
What is written on it
By you or fickle fate.
It’s a time to glance backward
Or a time to look ahead
A time to reconnoiter
For your spirit to be fed.
It’s a time to take stock
Of the should’ve, could’ve stuff
To make amends, see new friends,
Make sure you do enough.
Like a book that’s yet unwritten,
You hold the pages in your mind
Good thoughts and resolutions
Are yours to seek and find.
So as you think and ponder
In this new year how you live
Let your thoughts be kind and gentle
Your heart be quick to give.
So that when you face the new year
Looking back and counting deeds
Every kindness, every action
Planted fertile growing seeds.
Then each year will bring you closer
If you listen from the start
To becoming like our Savior
Yielding to your gentler heart.
