God, who enfolds our
little lives at each end, whose grace sustains
us, whose felt presence is so sweet that life
without it feels dry as dust, is a God of new
beginnings. The God who is at once Alpha and
Omega is so not only in the sense of being the
source and end of our creation. We experience
God’s abundant, exuberant creativity whenever
newness breaks through into our dust-drenched
days. The in-breaking of freshness is structured
into the very fabric of our world. We are
invited into its tender promise, its rising
hope, its renewed possibility with each dawn.
- Wendy M. Wright
The Time Between