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.

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

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.

Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.

God’s not done with you yet, even if you haven’t let Him begin.

It is only in reaching the end of ourselves that we finally realize that there is an end to ourselves. And it is at this end that we finally realize that God is finally able to begin.

Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.

The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.

As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and our efforts were stunted by the bane of our insecurities or blunted by the challenges of life, does not a sunset invite us to rest before it whispers the same message the next morning?