What was at the beginning?

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

What was at the beginning? Or perhaps it is right to ask what is in the beginning, since for now we and the world exist. So, what is at the beginning, what is the foundation, the source from which we grow, we come, we flow? Or maybe it is not worth asking such questions? Why would anyone need such questions, to which no one can give such a full and certain answer? Why complicate our life with a question about the past?

And yet, when we ask about what is at the beginning, do we ask only about others, things and people, and not about ourselves? Asking what was the beginning of myself, I ask who am I? This question is not as trivial as it may seem at first glance. For there are days when a man has only one thing to say to himself: I am less than zero. Deep inside of me only darkness and a swarm of dark powers.

Instead, at the beginning of John's Gospel, the Spirit of God assures us that at every beginning, that the beginning of every beginning is the Son of God, the Word of God, and therefore Someone. It is worth remembering. In the beginning there is a Person, there is Someone and this Someone is capitalized, because only he is the fullness of the wisdom and love, His omnipotence is omnipotence aimed at constantly multiplying and leading to the full flowering of all that has its beginning.

Therefore, we do not come from nothingness here to earth on the day of our conception, but we come from God, from His love. At our foundations, not only and above all darkness swirls, but behind this bundle we see the face of the Son of God. If so, then our dying is not back in darkness, but an even stronger rooting into life. At the end of this year, I wish all of us a return to the beginning. And “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Until Tomorrow

fr. george