I think most of us don’t like endings. They can ignite a fear of loss and loneliness. They can bring on feelings of emptiness, they can even feel like death. We will resist against an ending, perhaps pushing something to keep something going even when Life is showing us its time to let go. No one wants to mourn that something is over.
What if we looked at endings as beginnings instead? What if we saw that the end of something was really the birth of something greater? Nature is perfect in its timing of life and death. It lets go exactly when it is time to begin again. A flower wilts and dies just as its seeds around have taken hold into the earth. Sometimes the connection of life and death is not so transparent. We might need to let go and grieve fully for a time, and then God brings someone into our life to bring new love when we least expect it.
The sun sets and fades out of our view, bringing an ending to the day, but in its place, is the bright round moon ready to shine its light on a new night. Today, I choose to believe in the birth of new love and awareness , as the old one leaves from my view.