The End of Things

Can it be that the end of things paves the way for the beginning of the new? And yet it's hard to let go when the new is not yet apparent, has not yet arrived.

There is a certain inevitabity about the passing of the years, and of our days, but still we want to hold on, to hang back, to go back to what was. Even the Israelites, at one point in their wanderings, longed for the certainty of the old - though it were slavery - rather than the uncertainty of their present struggles and striving - and facing the unknowability of God's timing and will for any future entrance into Promise.

I wonder what my deep heart mostly fears as I face the days ahead . . .

Light at the year's end ? . . .

Am I - are we emerging to a better year or worse ?
And how will we move on - or hold on anyway?

Believing Anyway

It is our Lord Jesus alone who can bring hope in the darkness 
and faith in the most cold of days.