For the New Year

From my heart to yours, a prayer for the new year.

'On this first day of 2017 I share my prayer and blessing 
for us, the beloved of the Father. May the Spirit open the 
inner eyes of our heart's imagination to see as He sees us;
that we may once and for all fling off the grave cloths of
academic head knowing, knowing by hearsay and enter
into the resurrection empowered knowing by personal
seeing and experienced relationship the love of the 
Father that cascades into our lives through the Spirit.
May we know our identity as Christ persons that He is
in us and we are in Him--complete union that we may
love one another with the same love that He pours into
our hearts and so be in reality the light of the world.'
(Malcolm Smith, January 1, 2017)

Reader, each new year like each new day is an empty
page of possibilities!