Beginning Again

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.John 1:1-5 

It’s the beginning of the semester, not far from the beginning of a year, and I am beginning to blog again. “In the beginning” of all things, God spoke a Word to create the world out of Love, but God also created human freedom. All things came into being through God, but not all new beginnings originate in God. Somewhere, this very day, someone is planning a new way for one group of people to eradicate other members of the human family. Someone, somewhere is devising a new way to hack identities. Someone, somewhere (in many “where”s) is about to lure someone into a drug addiction. There is more darkness in more places than we can imagine. All our new beginnings have to take into account the temptations of darkness. We can make a beginning for ourselves – for our advancement, our comfort, our pleasure, with little thought of others. Or we can start a new beginning by asking God to shine light into our hearts and minds, so that our lives and what we do with them show forth the Light that is always coming into the world to conquer darkness.

Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings with your Holy Spirit, that all our works begun, continued and ended in you, may glorify your Holy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

God’s peace,

Katie