Poetry for a Sunday

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Another New Year

 by

Phyllis C. Michael

Another new year - what shall I make of it?

God gave it to me as a loan.

Shall I search for earth's cheer with its pretense and take it -

Not bread for my soul but a stone?

Another new year - what shall I gather,

Earth's tinsel, her glitter to show?

Another new year - what would I rather,

A flash or a deep inner glow?

A year full of getting or a year full of giving

The best that I have to give?

A year full of fretting or a year full of living

The way that God wants me to live?

Another new year - what shall I make of it?

God gave me the right to choose.

Another new year - God helping, I'll take it

And give it to Him to use.