Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again.

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.

What I want to suggest, with great temerity, is that in the resurrection one is given the beginning of a new knowing, a new epistemology, a new coming-to-speech, the Word born afresh after the death of all human knowing and speech, all human hope and love, after the silent rest of the seventh-day sabbatical in the tomb. I

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.

Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course,

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.