A New Year with New Prayers

"A thousand times I've told myself 

'I simply must try harder.'

But I know it: 

trying harder only results in harder trials.

To forge new tracks across this new year

will need more than simply sheer effort.

To track new ways,

one does not need to try harder,

but to pray new prayers

asking to be filled with His Spirit."
                           -Ann Voskamp