beginnings

God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.

I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it._

Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can__ have the same experience.

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.

What I would be quite wise to remember is that __ieces_ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.

Your heart__ strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don__ look back.

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.

Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

Here is a story that__ stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange:a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.I__l warn you, of course, before we commence, my story is eerie and full of suspense, brimming with danger and narrow escapes, and creatures of many remarkable shapes.Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more, and creatures you__e not even heard of before. And faraway places? There__ plenty of those! (And menacing villains to tingle your toes.)So ready your mettle and steady your heart. It__ time for my story__ mysterious start...

There's never a beginning for eternity.

Endings and beginnings look just the same.

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.

When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver__ seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I__ going to say, or where it__ going. I have some idea of how long it__ going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That__ the intrigue of doing it -- it__ a process of discovery. You get to discover what you__e going to say and what it__ going to mean.

The secret of an abundant life is to expand it with more beginnings so that the universe can fill your world from many directions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.