<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">Prayer for the New Year</span></b><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By Edgar Guest<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Grant me the strength from day to day<br>To bear what burdens come my way.<br>Grant me throughout this bright New Year<br>More to endure and less to fear.<br>Help me to live that I may be<br>From spite and petty malice free.<br>Let me not bitterly complain<br>When cherished hopes of mine prove vain,<br>Or spoil with deeds of hate and rage<br>Some fair tomorrow's spotless page.<br>Lord, as the days shall come and go<br>In courage let me stronger grow.<br><br>Lord, as the New Year dawns today<br>Help me to put my faults away.<br>Let me be big in little things;<br>Grant me the joy which friendship brings.<br>Keep me from selfishness and spite;<br>Let me be wise in what is right.<br>A happy New Year! Grant that I<br>May bring no tear to any eye.<br>When this New Year in time shall end<br>Let it be said I've played the friend,<br>Have lived and loved and labored here,<br>And made of it a happy year.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>