I thought
it was some type of Christian
article - perhaps in one of the
daily items I receive or in one of the blogs I follow -- but I’m not sure.
The phrase
stuck with me even though I didn’t
remember where I saw it. After some searching around I found an article “Beginnings
in Endings: Mary Did You Know?” by Phil Ware published, December 23, 2012 , in Heartlight (an
on-line magazine) .
However, it seemed to me that it had been
earlier in the year and there was some reference to the source of the phrase so
I "GOOGLEd" it and found these references
(none of which seemed to fit my original recollection)… SIGH.
However, most of them are relevant to where I (think) I'm heading in this (hopefully not de-railed) train of thought.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson (see http://www.maria-robinson.com/)
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make and end
is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from”. T. S. Eliot ( Four Quartets - #4 Little Gidding)
“Every
beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning, don't worry, broken
soul, life will one day come to an end. ” ― Santosh Kalwar
“Better is the end of a thing than
its beginning,..” Ecclesiastes 7:8 (ESV)
I mention
this because it was this phrase that “inspired” the title of “Beginnings and
endings” which I have used in 3 of 4 of
my 2013 posts and (as you’ve no doubt noticed is the title of
this post).
When I
(re)started – made a new beginning on my blog on January 23, I planned (without
“promising”) to publish every (week) day. Well I did OK up until yesterday when
the number of errands on our list kept me
busy for most of the day and then I needed to rest from all that activity.
To-day was
more errands and tomorrow we travel to
Sudbury for a consult with Dr. Barg so I’ll probably not have a post then. So I
decided I would publish something today – even if it is incomplete.
I mentioned in Part 1 of “Beginnings and endings”, my 2013 “theme song”
I will live today in the
moment. I will live today as if it were my last day here on this earth and I
will dream and plan today for tomorrow because “Today is the first day of the
rest of my life; I will rejoice and be glad in it” (cf. Psalm 118:24-KJV)
I have talked about a lot of endings – including the
BIG ending of my streak of “no major health problems” – For the next few posts
I will talk about the beginning of this new journey of living with a (hopefully) fully repaired “broken”
heart and how it fits with my "theme song".
Even though I'm confident that I will come through this -- this news has renewed the thought that we need to be prepared and to live each day asking ourselves "What if this were my last day. Tim McGraw captured that thought in his song "Live like you were dying".
As I begin this journey I want to share the preparations
being made "for the rest of the journey" which I hope is a long one, about living in the moment and savoring the good things ("stopping to smell the roses") and "living as if I were dying" and take you through
I want to share my thoughts “go under the knife”, get a new valve and begin a new journey of living.
One
thought I’ll leave you with for today is that Linda & I were talking and I
said I thought this was harder for her than for me. She
didn’t agree but I still think its'true.
Why?
She is very concerned about the amount
of pain that I will experience – and that’s a HUGE concern for her – she knows
about pain – childbirth and her nursing experience has seen to that. She wants to be "strong for me" and that she's good at and what's making it difficult is that I'm not able to be her "rock" and help her be strong.
However,that's not the reason I say it's more difficult for her. Although she tries to cover it up her biggest fear and burden right now is the
thought that I might not make it. And, if I put myself in her position that’s “GI-NORMOUSLY” HUGE.
The way I
look at it if I’m feeling PAIN that’s good – I’m still around and on my way to
recovery. If I’m not feeling pain I’m not
here to be dealing with anything – and she is left to deal with a lot – so it’s
seems she has the larger burden .
That's what makes
me the saddest and troubles me the most – even though it’s out of my control.
I
pray for her the message of Psalm 27 (see January 25th post) if our
plans for the best turn out to be a need to face the worst.
God Bless
Charlie
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