An Old Prayer for A New Year, Christmas Card Version

I’m planning on making my own Christmas Cards this year and using a shortened version of what I wrote on New Year’s Eve of last year.

Let us not speak these words only once a year,
but with each breath, every day.

May we understand ourselves without medallions of success, nor burdens of sorrow, that we may instead lighten our souls through compassion and humility.

May we find balance between labor and rest, and do work that promotes welfare without excess, comfort without indulgence, diligence without pride, and effort without exhaustion.

May we give so much to others that we never know the feeling of greed.

May we give enough to ourselves that we never know the feeling of want.

May we find insight to our own affairs and stay blind to the affairs of others.

May we see the world as precious and limitless, and each of us as the extension of the infinite.