A New Year’s Prayer



By Stanley Collymore

Almighty God as a new year dawns and the present one

marches inexorably on to its close and inevitably

into the permanent archives of the past closely

accompanied by the revered or otherwise

best forgotten memories of events that

once, either profoundly for some or

perfunctorily for others, affected our

respective lives during their current reign, we

respectfully beseech your divine intercession

as we hope and pray communally, both nationally

and globally, that we can and will mutually

agree to work assiduously and

cooperatively to ensure a much better

future; comprising one that is more

just, equitable and realistically

offers a much fairer chance

of individual success, the

attainment of greater

prosperity, and the

reality of personal

empowerment

to everyone

of us.

And that in terms of the detrimental forces of disunity

and negativity that for far too long have seriously

impaired our judgements and blighted our

lives considerably, we’ll learn to

earnestly do our very best to

effectively set about jettisoning and dispensing with

them until we’ve removed their menacing evil

from our psyche and, collectively as the

human race, ceaselessly persevere to

make quite sure that within our

midst no traces of their earlier

presence or any suggestion

that they once existed will

either be recognized,

allowed to carry

on or remain.

Amen!

© Stanley V. Collymore

18 December 2013.

Observation:

Laziness, cowardice and a nurtured indifference that is itself spawned by fear, whether real, imagined or contrived, that the individual might be personally disadvantaged were he or she to challenge or depart from the official and accepted narrative of how they should behave or go about doing things and then often and conveniently using that conclusion to avoid having to stand up and be seriously counted on moral, social, political, economic or religious issues is a blinkered approach which can and does impact negatively and even disastrously on the lives of people globally or those in one’s country.

And clearly knowing this to be the case yet still carry on, adamantly refusing to do anything to constructively alleviate some or all of these needlessly imposed afflictions, is an attitude that is beyond the pale; constituting in my opinion the personification of selfishness as well as the most egregious, odious and the worst kind of human betrayal there is! The remedy for which is, of course, in our individual hands.