| Song | A New Year Prayer |
| Album | New Year Christian Songs |
| Genre | Church Christian Music |
| Writer(s) | Emma F. R. Campbell |
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| Tags | A New Year Prayer |
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Before The New Year’s Portal
With Waiting Feet I Stand
And Seek, Dear Lord, A Blessing,
The Guidance Of Thy Hand.
The Path Is All Untrodden,
No Human Footfall Yet
Has Left A Trace To Follow,
And Save Our Vain Regret.
The Way Seems Dark Before Me,
With No Clear Guiding Light;
All Unrevealed Its Dangers
To My Dim Mortal Sight.
Father, I Dare Not Venture
One Single Step Alone,
Lest I In Blindness Stumble
Against Some Hidden Stone.
Known To Thy Higher Wisdom
Is All My Future Way;
Its Roughness And Its Windings,
Its Snares To Lead Astray.
Unguided I Shall Wander,
Lord, Let Me Take Thy Hand,
And Hold Thou Up My Goings,
That I Secure May Stand.
I Know Not What Awaits Me
Along The Coming Year,
What Cup Of Joy Untasted,
What Weariness Or Fear;
Beneath What Weight Of Sorrow
I May Be Called To Bow,
How Near The Dreary Shadow
Falls On My Pathway Now.
But This I Know, Undoubting,
That Not Too Great Or Strong,
Will Be The Cross Thou’lt Give Me,
The Darkness Not Too Long;
For Loving Like A Father
Thou Chasten But To Bless;
And With Each Needed Trial
Will Give Sustaining Grace.
Lord, Quiet These Forebodings,
These Human Doubts Remove;
Give Me Childlike Assurance,
A Calm, Unwavering Love.
Let Me Go Forward Bravely,
With Willing, Trusting Feet,
Through Thine Own Strength To Conquer
Each Enemy I Meet.
