Leaving

"Leaving is not simply leaving, not only good-byes, farewells, and beneditions over a time of life that is finished. Leaving is also beginning; it is hello saying. It is greeting the new dawn that struggles behind darkened clouds of farewell, the dawn being born in brightness and varicolored beauty, enhanced by the clouds of yesterday still lingering in farewell. Beginning and ending are together the moment of dawn, stretching the moment our lives take wing and move from place to place, from people to people, from task to task. Ending - beginning, changing, becoming is the place wherein God is.
~ Dwight H. Judy