New Beginnings - Seeds in Pain

New beginnings.  The way our lives frequently go, we doubt the existence of new beginnings...at least for us.  We've had too much loss, far too much pain, and circumstances that seemed anything but kind to us.  And as we look down the road of our lives, we can only envision more of the same.  We really don't believe in new beginnings because all we've come to believe in is survival, and we frequently feel that we're doing that all that well either.

But our new beginnings lay in our painful endings.  No one likes to hear that, and few of us actually believe it.  But the seeds of our new day, our new month, our new life lay scattered about in the midst of our losses.  There are new beginnings awaiting you in the brokenness of your pain.  And it's worth looking beyond your pain for a moment to gather the seeds that lay there waiting for you.