We come to beginnings only at the end.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
Each person’s life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.
We resist transition not because we can’t accept the change, but because we can’t accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.
Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination.