(Through
the Door and Living the Life)
Havin'
A Great Day In Kansas
(Walkin'
Tall In My New Suit)
Well, here we are, finally, at the End which is really the Beginning. In
actual fact, there are no endings. Everything is always beginning. A child
is beginning to live, someone is beginning to die. Someone is beginning
to grieve whilst another person is beginning to come out of grieving and
beginning to live again. So many beginnings it's hard to know just where
to begin now.
How may I put it: In our beginnings is our salvation? Now that sounds right.
As long as we see that we can always make a new beginning - a fresh start,
we will always have hope for a worthwhile future to help us walk that extra
mile. I guess I could also say that a new beginning will be more successfully
made if it is allowed to rise, Phoenix-like, from our remembrance of what
went before.
Everything in your life has been used to bring you to this point, to reading
these words right now. There have never been so-called accidents in your
life. Socrates said, near the ending of his life on Earth, that the realization
of how little we know is the beginning of real wisdom. Let's not try to
figure out too much or try to batter and bash what we think we understand
of calamity or catastrophe or coincidence or unexpected events or other
people or loved ones or traffic jams or moon walks or aliens into our own
too-small perception of how we think things should be or of how we should
be compensated or pitied or accepted. Let's admit that we simply do not
understand most stuff and, best of all, we don't need to. There's a loving,
compassionate and merciful God Who, despite what people say, is very good
at running the whole show. Trust Him-He knows what He's doing.
As for you, my friend, you've been to the Land of Oz and now you're back
in your Kansas, called,"Life In The World". Like Dorothy, you will always
yearn to go back to Oz again, for good. Some day you will. Meantime, there
are chickens to be fed, the cow needs milking and somebody's calling you
to get a move on. You don't have all day, you know. Just remember: There
isn't much time but whatever time there is, there's more than enough for
you. Live your new life with great joy and peace in your heart. Oh, and
don't forget: Most of the people you meet have never been to Oz. They're
still stuck in Kansas. Why do you think you came back?
So, as fellow traveler Paul once said: Be happy and use the time wisely.
I'll
be seein' you. Take care and have a great life. . .Charles Vandornn
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