Of myself, I am not the end of anything. But in God’s hands, I can be the beginning of many things.

Endings have the power to shake beginnings from their slumber, raise them to their feet, and send them running forward when they would have otherwise stayed fast asleep.

The carnage is not the end of something. Rather, it can be the beginning of everything. And the manner in which the carnage serves us will depend on the manner in which we see it.

And so the seasons turn, leaving the parting season holding out the sure and certain promise of the one to come. And if we are sufficiently naïve to refuse to relinquish the season that is passing, we will completely forfeit the promise of the one for which the passing season existed.

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

My stupidity need not be the end of me, for if I surrender my stupidity to God it will in fact become the beginning of me.

To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.

Death is the beginning of the bigger side of the story.

Some of us are always waiting for life to begin. And I often wonder if life actually began a look time ago and we were too afraid to admit that it began.