A Prayer for the Headlines for Wednesday, January 2nd

Good Morning, God,
Lord God, amid all the headlines of 2012 and those that will be in 2013, help us to keep perspective with your words:
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time for war, and a time for peace.
You have made everything suitable for its time; moreover, you have put a sense of past and future into our minds, yet we cannot find out what you have done from the beginning to the end. Help us to know that there is nothing better for us than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we live; moreover, it is your gift that we should eat and drink and take pleasure in all our toil.
May we.
In, Jesus' name, Amen.