Dead End or New Beginning?

The End is the Beginning...

This picture grabbed my attention.  The “Dead End” contrast with the flowers which always return each year.  How can such living beauty portend a dead end?  There’s no dead end in nature’s cycles of life.  T.S. Eliot described it: 

What we call the beginning is often the end.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

Sometimes we need to reach a dead end to find a new way.  Think back.  How often did you hit a dead end and find it as a new beginning, the place to start over?  

There’s more than cycles of making our dead ends into new beginnings.  Something ultimate about life itself….  Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”  (John 12:24)  Jesus used nature to point out the deeper truth in human nature.  Some say that he not only understood people this way.  He had to live it himself—the very seed that died and rose to new life.