One of my English teachers from high school taught me that the most important sentence of any literary work is the first sentence.  That puts a lot of pressure on the writer and I am experiencing that myself with this first post.  So I decided to go with something that seems to have worked in the past - the opening lines of Genesis:  “In the beginning…”

It really is an excellent opening line when you think about it.  It  speaks to how God has been at work – creating – since the beginning of time.  As we read the stories that follow, we witness how God has continued to work in the lives of all types of people:  Abraham & Sarah, Isaac & Rebecca, Jacob & Rachel, Moses  & Miriam, on and on through time.   That opening line was so good that the writer of the Gospel of John used it again to begin the story about Jesus and the church.

I want to continue that conversation about how God is present in our lives today.  Although our culture is dramatically different than when that opening line was first inscribed,  our search for and understanding of God continues.  We are now part of that story that continues to unfold.  This is the place where I hope we can help each other understand our place in the greater narrative of life.

“In the beginning…”  Let’s start to fill in the rest.