A prayer at the new month

Master of the World, a new month begins. I look back on the month that passed: what I succeeded in, where I fell, what I put off again. There are things in it I am proud of, and things I would like to have done differently.

I ask that this month be a month of beginning. Help me choose one thing I want to repair or add this month, and let me hold on to it until its end.

And if last month I promised myself something and did not keep it, let me not give up on it, but check what tripped me up, and try again in a more fitting way.

The moon is now beginning again, thin and small, and day after day it grows and gives light. Let me too grow like that, slowly and steadily, without demanding fullness of myself already at the start.

Let me see in the darkness at the end of the month not an end but a preparation. Even when my light grows dim, it does not mean it has vanished, only that it is getting ready to return.

Give good days this month to me and my household: health, livelihood, joy and peace. And let me pay attention to the days, so that they do not pass over me without my feeling that I lived them.

And let this month be a month of joy. So that when I reach its end, I can look back and see that I grew, even a little, and that it did not pass in vain, and that in it I came one more step closer to You.