Life's Chapters

Life, like every great story, must move forward. Chapters must end, and new chapters must begin.

No matter how great the last chapter was, in order for the story to continue, it must come to an end.

Not all chapters will be as thrilling or happy as the one you find yourself in, but every chapter is necessary to the story as a whole. If we cling to past chapters new ones will never unfold, and who knows? Maybe this new chapter will be even better than the last one.

Some chapters will contain dragons and storms while others bring good times with friends. It may be tempting to skip the chapters that seem too mundane to matter or too much to possibly bare, but oftentimes it is in those chapters where we find pieces of ourselves that we need in order to experience the great chapters to their full extent.

Change is never easy. You would think with as commonplace as it is that we would grow accustomed to it, and yet it is always hard to move away from what is familiar.

When the page is turned we cannot know what the story will bring next, but we can rest assured the Author of our story has us exactly where we need to be to make our story one that shakes the foundation of the world.

As JRR Tolkien said, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

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  1. SherlewMay 28, 2016 at 4:16 PM

    Great thoughts! Life is not always what we expect it to be, but God will show us the right paths if we will just listen and follow.

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