Beginnings, Endings

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

                             “Closing Time”, Semisonics

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There are so many things we hang on to

Our egos (of course)

Our plans

Our values, and beliefs

Customs

Traditions

Social norms

Even failures and hurts

Can be precious to us

Nurtured and held close to our hearts

It is difficult to let go

Not just of things that nurture and comfort

But of things that rend and destroy

Harsh things

Hurtful things

But let go we must

For even those things that were once fresh and new

Can end up dry and tasteless

Every beginning comes from some other beginnings end

And that beginning too, we come to an end

Thesis, antithesis, new thesis (synthesis), antithesis

On and on it goes (thanks Hegel)

The failure to let go

Causes fear, and often hate

It causes us to get stuck

Become dry bones…

But the dry bones can live

When God’s new thing happens

And that is indeed the good news in all of this

Each day, each moment

Is a new beginning

I mean it!  Really!