The (Almost) End

Well, here we are folks. It's the end of another semester here on the Hill at Western. Actually, it's my last semester here on the Hill at Western. No, I do not graduate until May, but starting in January, I will be student teaching in a school a little closer to home, and I will be living at home! No more little bathrooms or heaters that blow cold air. 

But it's bittersweet.

I'm going to miss living with my sister Rebekah. I'm going to miss having Chic-fil-a at my fingertips, and I'm going to miss having class with my friends who encourage me and complain about assignments with me. But man oh man, I'm gonna love eating real vegetables every now and then and having my wardrobe all in one closet and getting to see my mama and daddy everyday. Plus, how nice will it be to live 30 minutes away from Joseph rather than an hour and 15? 

Recently I attended a show at the planetarium here at school about doomsday. During this show I learned that the Mayans never said the world would end on December 20, 2012. That is simply where they're calendar ended. Their calendar operated like the odometer on our cars, when the numbers all maxed out, they just started over again. It was just a cycle. 

I think God created us to live our lives in cycles. Every few years one thing ends, but something new always begins. You may have heard the saying, "When God closes one door, he opens another." Well its true! When I graduated high school, it was a major transition. It was kind of sad, but I couldn't be sad for long because I was going to college! Now here I am, four years later, in the same position. It's happening again. I am coming to a close on one chapter of my life, and it's kind of sad except that I'm getting married! I can't be sad when I'm looking forward to getting married! I know it doesn't happen like that for everyone, but I believe God intends for us to move on from the old and embark on new adventures, that's just the way he designed it! And I think that is so cool!

So every time we think it's the end, it's really just the beginning.