Beginning, always beginning.

Beginning; Always Beginning.

O God of beginnings 

help me to begin.

To shrug off the burdens of before.

To leave aside the anxieties of after.

To release the chains of regret.

To simply begin.

Here.

Now.

In this moment.

With you.

O God of beginnings 

help me to begin.

To gift you my brokenness.

To yield to you even my failures 

of a moment ago.

To know that our life is built with you

moment by moment,

step by often faltering step,

as you draw us daily deeper into

the fires of love and there transform us.

O God of beginnings 

help me to begin.

To begin to love.

To begin to live.

To hear your unbinding call.

To walk out into the light

of the true life you offer

beyond the tomb of time.

O God of beginnings 

help me to begin.

To shrug off the burdens of before.

To leave aside the anxieties of after.

To release the chains of regret.

To simply begin.

Here.

Now.

In this moment,

and in every moment after.

Until all our little moments fall away

and we are called into the ending

that is really the eternal 

beginning.