{"id":102,"date":"2009-03-25T17:17:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:05:17","slug":"endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of us don&#8217;t like endings.\u00a0 They can ignite a fear of loss and loneliness.\u00a0 They can bring on feelings of emptiness, they can even feel like death.\u00a0 We will resist against an ending, perhaps pushing something to keep something going even when Life is showing us its time to let go.\u00a0 No one wants to mourn that something is over.<\/p>\n<p>What if we looked at endings as beginnings instead?\u00a0 What if we saw that the end of something was really the birth of something greater?\u00a0 Nature is perfect in its timing of life and death.\u00a0 It lets go exactly when it is time to begin again.\u00a0 A flower wilts and dies just as its seeds around have taken hold into the earth.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Today, I choose to believe in the birth of\u00a0 new love and awareness , as the old one leaves from my view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of us don&#8217;t like endings.\u00a0 They can ignite a fear of loss and loneliness.\u00a0 They can bring on feelings of emptiness, they can even feel like death.\u00a0 We will resist against an ending, perhaps pushing something to keep something going even when Life is showing us its time to let go.\u00a0 No &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/endings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Endings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}