A New Year, a New Beginning

I have a friend who is suffering. Here is the prayer I wrote and prayed for her today:

I pray she will awaken and say today, “This sorrow is a little less acute, the spiny edges of it have worn down a bit, and I know a new thing. I can feel something as I see a beauty that God is holding up in His hands as a peace offering to me, a beauty that has been unnoticed, now just at my elbow, waiting for me to turn and to delight.”