O Lord who is from everlasting to

O Lord who is from everlasting to everlasting the living and true God, high and lifted up, inhabiting eternity, yet who is near to every soul who turns to you, we who are creatures of a day bow before you in quietness and confidence. Amid all the changes of life, your faithfulness never changes. The years come and go, but there is no coming or going from your love, but always we are surrounded by grace, even when we do not know it.

O God, for whom a thousand years are as a day, how can we lay hands upon this New Year until first you have laid your hand upon us, and claimed us anew as…