Last week I followed a stream about love of God as the beginning. This week - though I'm on vacation and may not keep up with it - the stream goes toward the love of God as the end. The love of God as the end is what I have usually called the pull. God's love already holds what will be. No matter how things 'end' there will be the God whose love knows no end. So even though we see things as the end - the end of our career - the end of a relationship - the end of a trip - the end of the day - the end of life, the love of God is there. If the love of God is there as it was from the beginning, I would think that the end is now been transformed into a beginning. God pulls us into the beginning of all things because God is already at the end. This is one of those reasons I often go back to the expression that God is the Alpha and the Omega. God's love as the end means that the end will be transformed by that love. Within the end of all things is the opportunity for life to begin. The look of that ending is not know - it is only affirmed. The affirmation is simple. God's love will be there and in the midst of that love we face that which has yet to be. Does that mean the end or the beginning. If we have not yet been there - it is the beginning even as it appears to be what we call the end. O God of love and new life, the end of all things is often difficult for us to face. It is so unknown. Remind us again that in the end we will see how you create things anew. That will make this day look new and strange - so walk with us again. Amen. |
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