Beauty in Your Own Backyard

Give me new eyes with which to see the New Year, Lord. Give me new and clearer vision. Let me bring new awareness to all the dear and precious sights and sounds about me, greet them with new delight, new enthusiasm. Let no day pass without my remarking on the beauty and wonder of all that is about me, from a bug (even in my kitchen) to a budding tree, from a chipped saucepan heaped with apples for peeling to a Van Gogh in a gallery