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Good morning. Although each day of the year is considered to be equally special and important by Sikhs, the Fifth Guru, Guru Arjun Dev, composed hymns to recite on the first day of each month to remind us that the Almighty is always with us, through every season and at all times of the year. The spiritual poetry of South Asia is filled with references to God personified as a husband or an absent lover that humankind longs for and desperately wants to be reunited with, and that desire is often seen to be overwhelming, even though the Almighty is considered genderless within Sikh theology. Today is the first day in the various South Asian calendars of the winter month of Poh, and today鈥檚 prayer focuses on the wish to be close to God. Guru Arjun Dev says: 鈥淚n the month of Poh, the cold does not touch those, whom the Husband Lord hugs close in His embrace. Their minds are transfixed by His lotus feet. They are attached to the blessed vision of the Lord's Darshan. Seek the protection of the Lord of the universe; His service is truly profitable. Corruption shall not touch you, when you join the Holy Saints and sing the Lord's praises. From where it originated, there the soul is blended again. It is absorbed in the love of the true Lord. When the Supreme Lord God grasps someone's hand, that person shall never again suffer separation from Him. I am a sacrifice, a hundred thousand times over, to the Lord, my friend, the Unapproachable and Unfathomable. Please preserve my honour, Lord; Nanak begs at Your door. The month of Poh is beautiful, and all comforts come to that person, whom the carefree Lord has forgiven.鈥� Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.