Prayer for January 4, 2024

It is challenging, O God, to create new habits that we want to attempt. We know that if we do certain things often it will benefit us. It is also true that bad habits are often as hard to break as it is to habituate one to the new good thing. Help those of us that are trying new things and those who are giving up others to find strength. May we look to your presence as encouragement to try and know that if we need to keep restarting that eventually it will become normative. May we see any failure as just opportunities to do better in the future. Let us find strength and community with others who are also attempting to change. Amen