​Always there is a beginning —

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a new day,
a new month,
a new season,
a new year.

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Forever the old passes away

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and newness emerges
from the richness that was.

Nothing is ever lost

in the many changes
time brings.

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What was, in some way,

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will be,
though changed in form.

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Know this:
This moment is a beginning;
and your lives,

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individually and together,
are full of richness, of freshness,
of hope and of promise.

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- Edward Searl, We Pledge Our Hearts by Edward Searl, editor