Beginning is always a wound, because we are tearing day from the swamps of night, but the Spirit
watches over the dawn of the first morning…
Beginning is always a birth, because something new bursts into the closed field of the familiar.
familiar, but the Spirit takes on the cries of the world in need of birth …
Beginning is always courageous, because we build with ardour, even if the storm threatens and
the Spirit is a bulwark of fire all around the house …
Beginning is always hopeful, because a tree is planted even if the earth is parched, and the Spirit
is the source from which the roots flow: with you, Lord, today we begin.