O God, I thank you for giving me another year of life.
I thank you for all the people who have remembered me today,
and who have sent me cards,
and letters and good wishes and presents.
I thank you for everything which
I have been enabled by you to do and to be in the past year.
I thank you for all the experiences of the past year;
for times of success which will always be happy memories;
for times of failure which remind me of
my own weakness and of my need of you;
for times of joy when the sun was shining;
for times of sorrow which drove me to you.

Amen.