dailydatewithgod

We start with the first step, the first thought, the first feeling, the first insight, or the first notion.  It is a beginning.  Even when things end, there is a new beginning.  With every night closing a new day is dawning.  We live and breathe and have our being in this cyclical experience of life where there is a beginning at every turning point.  Just when it seems like all is lost and there is nowhere to turn we find a bend in the road that takes down a new path. We find ourselves on a beginning we had not imagined. The experience of beginning is fresh and unworn.  It is the evidence of hope’s presence in life.  When C.S.Lewis tells us, “relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done,” he is conveying God’s message of hope.  The invitation on each of my daily dates with God is an opportunity to believe again in the power of love and hope.  There are so many beginnings going on around us but we don’t see them because we haven’t opened our heart to their presence. We forget to take in a new breath.  Our bodies are designed to remind us to be in the beginning by taking a new breath.  No matter how much we get stuck in our heads, our bodies call us back to our hearts through a new breath.

My prayer for us is to embrace our bodies call back to a new beginning by being with our breath today.