Is This a Day of New Beginnings?

Is this a day of new beginnings,

Time to remember and move on,

Time to believe what love is bringing,

Laying to rest the pain that’s gone?

How can the seasons of a planet

Mindlessly spinning round its sun

With just a human name and number

Say that some new thing has begun?

Yet thro’ the life and death of Jesus

Love’s mighty Spirit, now as then,

Can make for us a world of difference

As faith and hope are born again.

Then let us, with the Spirit’s daring,

Step from the past and leave behind

Its disappointment, guilt, and grieving,

Seeking new paths, and sure to find.

Christ is alive, and goes before us

To show and share what love can do.

This is a day of new beginnings;

Our God is making all things new.