Tag: December 31

1          What clutter has the last year left,
            what loving, laughing, sighing;
            what things of worth to hold and keep,
            what grace that we’re denying;

2          what battered fragments of the past,
            things best left un-remembered,
            what joys that we had once denied,
            by hatred we’ve dismembered?

3          Great God, amid the light of Christ,
            bring a discerning spirit,
            that we might hold the things of worth
            that others might inherit.

4          The things that we should treasure most,
            God, sharpen in our vision,
            that we might finely tune your love
            to fight against division.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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