the end is the beginning
August 12, 2010
Does your experience tell you this is true?
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I don’t know yet…. there are times I feel that way right now. I am currently friendless…. and I feel utterly alone… is it just the beginning of something?
It has always been my experience that the end is the beginning. Looking back, some of my favorite times in life so far have been in times of transition. Though, I’ve been in Alabama for two years now and I still haven’t adjusted like I would want to/expect to. I’m a Florida girl, sigh.
Anyway, Anna, I think yes…many great surprises and new friends are on the horizon :)
I’m finding that to be true right now. This week is an end of alot of things, but also the beginning of so much more.
Plus the end of ME is the beginning of Jesus’ reign.
I don’t know yet, either. I’ve listened to Eminem’s song a lot lately (Not Afraid), and he starts by saying, “Maybe I had to go to that place to get to this one.” And I’ve found that that applies to a multitude of things about my life right now. Not just one. So it seems to evidence the fact that life is a journey … each path of which necessarily takes the one before it to reach. So … perhaps there are no ends? but always beginnings? hmmm.
October 4, 2001 – 11am – my divorce was final; 2pm – I got laid off from my job. For the next 4 hours I shook uncontrollably because I thought my world was crashing down upon me. As I was driving home (still shaking) and I exited the off ramp from the freeway towards my house God said in my heart “This is not an ending, but a beginning.”
I said, “Oh REALLY God? Sure it is.”
Almost 10 years later I am realizing, He was right. But BOY was that beginning difficult! Talk about trial by fire!
Oooooooh. So good.
I’ve been hearing some really good teaching about pruning lately. I heard once about how there HAS to be a Winter in order to kill off the things that would prevent there being a fruitful Spring. Makes me think of James 1, and how we’re to “count it ALL joy……..”
If there’s one thing I’d like to think I’m learning in this walk of faith, it’s that’s His perspecitive is so, so different from mine.
Oh, and yes, I’ve really found it to be true.
This reminds me of an old post of yours from last year that included this John Bevere quote: “Many times God will send you what you need in a package you don’t want.”
And I know from my own life, that package is often something ending or dying. I can hold onto it too tight, resisting……. but sure enough, whatever new thing He brings forth is always better than anything I ever fought to give up.
Absolutely. It doesn’t mean the beginning is fun, but there is never really a standstill.
oooooohhh, yes. yes. the end-of-my-rope, it-is-all-over moments. that’s when it really begins. that’s what i’m hoping for now.
LOVE this!!!
A lot of truth in that statement.
For anyone who has experienced severe depression, or a serious addiction problem, it usually takes reaching rock bottom before we are able to turn out life around.
I reached the point where I saw no hope of ending the pain and chose death. It was only after I survived my suicide attempt that I finally committed my self 100% to trying to find a way live.
@PrudyChick says:
When I was in college one of my professors wisely pointed out that every ending is a beginning. You don’t necessarily get a beginning unless something ends. So basically an end is a beginning.
TOTALLY! It’s almost biblical in nature. I love it.
LOVE, love, love, love this! Yes, this is SOOO true!
I hope so.
Totally believe it’s true … totally. Love you, Alece.
@bahava says:
i do believe so….though sometimes i think the beginnings aren’t always where or when we think they are…the same goes with the endings…sometimes looking back we see the different points than when we are going through it.