"Father, we surrender this past year and give it up to you.
We give you our failures, our regrets and our disappointments,
for we have no more use for them.

Make us now a new person,
forgetting what lies behind and
pressing on towards that which lies ahead of us.

We give you all our hopes and dreams for the future.
Purify them by Your Spirit so that our will shall truly reflect Your will for us.

As we stand on the threshold of another year,
encourage us by our successes of the past,
challenge us by the power of Your Word,
and guide us by the presence of Your Holy Spirit.” Amen.