Irish Blessing for the New Year & Fisherman Blues
" M ay all your troubles during the coming year be as short as your New Year's resolutions. M ay it be the best year yet for you And everything prosper you may do. M ay the best of this year be the worst of next. M ay the Lord keep you in his hand and never close his fist too tight on you. And may the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be toward us in the New Year."