Have you ever found yourself at the beginning of a big life change? Maybe you’re getting married, or divorced. Maybe you’re having a child, or burying a parent. Maybe you’ve been promoted, or lost a job you loved. Maybe you’ve moved; maybe you feel stuck. These big changes hit us hard―it’s easy to lose our way. It’s easy to think that God is leaving us alone in them.

The good news is that the God who spoke the world into existence, who lovingly brought into being everything seen and unseen, is speaking into your big change. Drawing from the story of creation in Genesis, Beginnings offers an empowering message of how God works through the transition in our lives. As God orchestrated the ultimate transition when he created everything from nothing, he can handle the overwhelming details in your life. Beginnings is for everyone who faces significant transition―in career, in relationships, in life stage, whether good or bad. By exploring the first chapter in Genesis―day by day, creative act by creative act―Steve Wiens shows us how beginnings work, and how God works through our beginnings.

Table of Contents

Day 1:  Light
Day 2:  Expanse
Day 3:  Seeds
Day 4:  Seasons
Day 5:  Monsters
Day 6:  Us
Day 7:  Stop

Epilogue:  Day Eight

Endorsements

"This isn't a book.  It's an invitation to new beginnings, new life.  With a fresh perspective on Genesis 1, we are invited into God's process of becoming who we actually are.  Telling stories with honesty, vulnerability, and pastoral sensitivity, Steve helps us locate our stories in the grand narrative of God's creation and re-creation story.  Read this book and walk into something new."
---NATE PYLE, Author of Man Enough

"I've come to think of Steve Wiens as a poetic hound dog, an author who sniffs out the nuances of ancient biblical words and stories until he's dug up their practical implications for the living of our actual lives.  Wiens' book, Beginnings, is an eloquent, earthy, and gently urgent call to say yes to the beautiful things the Creator wants to grow in the soil of you and me."
---CAROLYN ARENDS, Recording artist and author