Comments on: This Is Not the End {Mantra 18}

By: Lois Flowers

Lois Flowers — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:01:14 +0000

Aw, Lisa … what a poignant surprise to see that you shared my post with this one. I’m so sorry for these latest losses that you’ve experienced. I love how you frame endings as beginnings. I hear my dad saying it even now, as we sat in the hospital hearing bad news about my mom. “I don’t know how you feel about it,” he’d tell the doctor or social worker, “but we’re Christians and we don’t believe death is the end.” Such gentle comfort. ❤️

By: Barb Hegreberg

Barb Hegreberg — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 04:41:29 +0000

We are heading to a funeral next weekend. It is comforting to know that this isn’t the end.

By: Tea With Jennifer

Tea With Jennifer — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:59:45 +0000

Thank you Lisa, this is poignant for me this week.
Blessings,
Jennifer

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:06:12 +0000

My blog is for seniors so this post is perfect. Thanks so much for saying it again-an end is really not a end.

By: Lynn D. Morrissey

Lynn D. Morrissey — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:04:59 +0000

Lisa, I’m so very sorry about the loss of your uncle, but glad you could be with your cousins. When we know Christ, we have the sure hope that our bodies will be resurrected and we will indeed be changed, in the twinkling of an eye into our glorified bodies. I can’t even imagine! And you’re right: Endings precede beginnings. Even our sins and failures don’t have to be the end. In Christ, He transforms them into new beginnings. Thank you so much for sharing hope today!
xo
Lynn

By: Jerralea Winn Miller

Jerralea Winn Miller — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:56:07 +0000

Amen! This is not the end; just a new beginning. And I am a lover of new beginnings. The new beginning to our forever Home will be more glorious than even I, with my big imagination, can dream!

By: Jodee Schrlau

Jodee Schrlau — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:07:54 +0000

As Tommy Lee Jones said in the Men in Black; “Elvis isn’t dead, he just went home.” Likewise, our loved ones aren’t dead, they just went home. It is such a comfort to remember this is not the end.

By: Anita Ojeda

Anita Ojeda — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:45:25 +0000

I’m so glad it’s not the end! It’s a wonderful mantra to keep in mind when I mess up or things aren’t going my way. It’s the biggest picture that matters, and I don’t need to know the details to have a good life.

By: Calvonia Radford

Calvonia Radford — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:46:56 +0000

This line “Life never truly ends. It just changes into something else.” is so true. I have left jobs with co-workers I loved. Left churches with parishioners who were more like sisters and brothers than my natural siblings. I’ve had friends who became associates and associates who became life long friends. All transitions to better. The roughest of times have become tunnels leading to better things God had planned for me. I agree, death is the same. A new life awaits. Tomorrow, I will attend the funeral of my dear friend Wanda. I know she is living her best life now.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:50:17 +0000

“When the tomb reopens, something new is released.” Oh, I love that! Yes, there is always hope and the knowing an ending is another beginning, even in death.