I frequent a coffee shop here in Stockton called The Well. It’s my favorite spot. I’ll say more about it in a future post. The owners display a pithy bit of wisdom each day, and the one in the picture really spoke to me.

It can be so hard to process and accept an ending. Most of the time, one ending causes or is connected to many other endings, so there’s a cascading effect that can leave us devastated, overwhelmed, and hopeless.

But I’m finding that if we can wait on the Lord to walk us THROUGH the ending, we’ll find that he is walking us INTO a new beginning.

Now, you have to let the ending unfold. You can’t rush your healing. Pain alerts us to what’s damaged, so without sitting in and paying attention to the pain, healing can’t begin. You must face, and name, and own, and grieve the losses brought on by the ending. It hurts, it’s slow, and it sucks.

It feels like death because it is.

But hear me friends … you are going to make it.

You will live again.

You will love again.

You will dream again.

The end of something is not the end of you, and it is not the end of God’s purpose and plan for you. The One who makes all things new will begin new and beautiful things in you.

In the confusing and often painful in-between time, we have to wait on the Lord. God turns graves into gardens, makes seas into highways, and tells what’s dead to breathe, all of which takes time. Let the hurt do it’s healing work. He’s preparing you for that new beginning. Hang on, be still, and know it’s coming.

After all, God’s favorite thing to do is resurrection …