In 1972 Susan Sontag wrote, "I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage." Many people in Tennessee and around the world showed enormous courage in 2020, and perhaps we'd do well to pray for courage in 2021, too. After all, such a prayer is not an expression of dread, but of hope — hope that no matter what comes, we'll keep faith with the future and do the best we can.
