This has been a hard year

So much has happened to bring me here

But there's something gained to look back

So I'm reading my journal from front to back

Here's where I tried a lot, page 5 I cried a lot

This part I don't understand

Still I see Your good hand

Jesus, You're the man who has stayed with me

Jesus, You're the hand that has steadied me

Jesus, You've been faithful on every page

So I'm starting a new year today

Staring at the clean page

Putting thoughts down on paper the usual way

I may not know where this might lead

But Your word is the lamp guide in front of me

Here's where I play a lot, thankful for all I got

Doing the best that I can

I reach for Your hand

Jesus, You're the man who has stayed with me

Jesus, You're the hand that has steadied me

Jesus, You've been faithful on every page

So I'm starting a new year

writing a new year

starting a new

You shall see I'm doing a new thing

Do you not perceive Him

Making a way in the desert

Filling the waste land with streams

In yours is a story of winter

But my child, you have believed

That I am the author of your life

And now I am writing your spring

Welcome spring

This could be a good year