The End is Where We Start From.
There you stand. Time has come to an awkward halt as you look into the mirror, finally seeing the truth. All this time you have been in denial and resistance to moving forward in your life. It seems the best thing you have ever had is now over for you. You wonder why it has to end. Why did something so wonderful come to an end overnight? Why do good things have to end?
Our human world is a world of transience. Things come and things go through our lives. There is nothing of form that promises us permanence and yet our minds believe the illusion that everything is supposed to remain the same. Nothing remains the same. Everything changes, everything flows from one place to another – into your hands and then away from your hands.
Our minds tell us that when something flows away from us we are empty – and emptiness to the mind’s eye is considered a state of lack. We lack having “something” within that space to fill it. What makes emptiness even harder to accept is that we define our false selves by having filled space, filled time and filled homes. This is how we get a sense of self or a sense of ego – this is how we become distracted in our lives. We search for things “outside” of ourselves – things that can only be found to be permanent and eternal when found “inside” us.
The heart sees this emptiness as a place to begin – a clean sheet of paper on which to create – a life that one has only imagined and longed for, or a field of infinite possibility. But if you listen to the mind, that empty sheet of paper, that empty space has “no thing” of value.
T.S. Elliott the great poet, writes in his masterpiece, The Four Quartets: “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” He speaks to the knowing that a new beginning is often an ending. He speaks to an ending as the wondrous emptiness we start from. But in order to start, instead of resisting what already is, we must step forward on faith – faith that we are not alone in the starting. We must remember that we are One with the Creator of all things in our creation of a new life, and He is creating with us. He is using our life as a pencil on that blank sheet of paper – His canvas. And we are allowing his beautiful artistry to flow the way that He wishes it to be.
At home, at work, or even in love, endings are simply beginnings in disguise. Can you see the hint of excitement within your heart when you feel a new beginning? There is a sense of opportunity and a knowing that anything wonderful and good can happen. The mind can take us to fear, but the heart only wishes to run with opportunity – to run wild like a child runs through an open field, feeling the power of his own legs moving him forward. Ultimately, feeling the power of God within his heart while pumping the strength and life-feeding blood through his veins.
Flip your fears and resistance around to see the emptiness in your life as a fresh new canvas. Paint your life freely with His help, in the infinite colors of a rainbow. Paint with deep faith, hope and love. You will find this ending on which you have been focused, is a wondrous new beginning in disguise – a masterpiece painted by “WE” – you and your God. And when you finally realize this, then it is the time – the time to give this emptiness – this new beginning – every fiber of your heart.
-Frannie Rose
