Always there is a beginning 

a new day, 

a new month, 

a new season, 

a new year.

Forever the old passes away 

and newness emerges 

from the richness that was. 

Nothing is ever lost 

in the many changes 

time brings.

What was, in some way, 

will be, 

though changed in form.

Know this: 

This moment is a beginning; 

and your lives, 

individually and together, 

are full of richness, of freshness, 

of hope and of promise.

Edward Searl