A Poem for New Year

So what would I like for this coming year?

To sum up is no easy task.

To live and learn and laugh and love

These would be my main asks.

So living and laughing and loving all mixed

In one large family pot,

If things are going to be as we'd like

And surely as they really ought.

To live is something we all surely want

to be kept safe from all ill.

But eternal life I wish for us all

That heart and soul might be filled.

To love my Saviour more and more

Is something I desire to see.

And from His love my love would flow

To all in my family.

To laugh is so good for all our minds

We wish to be happy, not sad.

And if we can laugh again and again,

We'll remember the good not the bad.

We certainly want to learn a great deal

About the world God has made;

And how His plan has worked through the years,

How the stage of History has played.

Of people around this wonderful world 

And places we've never seen.

Food they grow, and clothes they wear

In countries we've never been.

And this year I ought to learn much more

About those fabulous sheep

The ones I've mocked and not really loved

The ones Big Brother keeps.

And so at the close of 2010

And the start of another year

we wish to live and laugh a lot

And learn and love, that's clear.

I wish you all a wonderful year

right from the very start.

And thank you all for visiting me

Since I started this blog last March.

For reading my weird and wonderful thoughts

For commenting here and there

For letting me know I'm not just talking

Into cyberspace's clear air.

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year. May God bless us all; may we live more to His glory than ever before; may we love our families and friends, and strangers, more than ever before; and may we seek Christ above all else, "for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36)