Endings & Beginnings

Our lives are shaped by a series of stories, each with its own narrative arc. We leave home and welcome people to our home; we enter our reproductive years and leave them; we end one piece of our life’s work and begin another. Endings and beginnings are bittersweet—we celebrate each with the awareness of the other. 

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“You are valuable now in this place…”

“Gone is the water bowl made empty by resignation”

“I simply trust the depth of my roots”

“The sun may set but the light still burns”

“There is a space / Beyond guilt / And struggle / And shame…”

“Make our every step be a step toward peace”

Wandering is not only ancient, but holy tradition

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