The End of a Thing

Ecclesiastes 7:8 "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." The journey to Super Bowl XLV will always remain a pivotal turning point in my life. I can't thank God enough for the opportunity to work on a major project that would land me in the icy and frozen city of Dallas for seven-days.Biblical the number seven represents completion and I'm leaving today on the eighth representing new beginnings. I'm so excited about the new..

The process to getting here was filled with many twist and turns and unmasked profound revelations in business and personal relationships. The week before coming my father's mother and my grandmother whom I'd been estranged until last year passed. This forced me once again to come face to face with my family in Chicago and my unsettled past.

The unhealed wounds left untouched for all these year's would once again have to be uncovered. I knew I was stronger than last year's initial coming back together for a funeral as well. Yet, stepping onto a plane Chicago bound was filled with deep emotions of being with a family divided on many levels. The wounds that lingered inside of me penetrated intensely into a past that has marred my self identity.

Yet, today I can stand and know that I walked away healed and made whole.I love how God exposes a thing in His own time. When the call on your life is bigger than you or your circumstance He comes in and does surgery on the whole self. Not only is He a healer but He is so wonderful that He doesn't stop there but He makes you whole again.

This victory and the whole process that led to getting to Dallas made me "gird up my lions" before I got here. And I was able to sit back and observe, take note, learn and without any hesitation know that many area's in my life were completed.

I'm most grateful that I can say definitively without any doubt that God is my source and all my expectations come from above. The word of God says, we should "owe no man but to love him and that does not just denote money or debt.

As I depart Dallas, I leave this experiences behind and move towards the very new and exciting things that God has already destined for my life. You see, He knows the end from the beginning and already knows what the new looks like for me, what doors He's opened and which one's He shut.

One of the hardest thing's to do in life is to get yourself free from other people's opinions, desires, plans, agenda's, mess and even fears. But, when you do finally conquered the beast you cannot ever be held back again. You begin to move in a peace and freedom that even you cannot explain. You just know you're free and it show's up in everything that you say and do.

Dallas was yesterday and today is a day I've never seen before...the end of a thing!