Embracing Endings

The sky is illuminating with an effervescent blue color today, slowly emerging into dawn’s light. The trees outside my window stand confidently as dark silhouettes against the sky’s shiny canvas, a few brown leaves yet holding unto exposed branches.

The season is changing.

To me, fall is always about letting go. It is a chorus of necessary endings that prophecy of the importance of dying again so that new life can come. The mystery of the leaf’s process holds such deep truths. Maybe life drains out of things because there comes a time when things need to end. Perhaps it is not a failure, a fall out, or a fire. Perhaps it is simply a natural life cycle, a normal part of life.

Things are ending for me.

Seven years in an assignment is ending.

A lifestyle of conflicting wishes is ending.

My personal business of many years is ending.

My attachment to relationships in my past is ending.

I welcome these necessary endings. I believe they must fall to the ground so that new life can come. In fact, they are falling, they have fallen, but I get to choose if I will process it. To embrace the facts is to be present in reality. It is in reality, not denial, that God does His great work.

Necessary endings.

Written November 19th, 2021