Chapters

People come. People go. Stories start and stories end. Relationships blossom and dwindle. Rinse, repeat. There oft comes a night like this one where our individual Stories reach a stopping point. The end of a chapter so to speak. This isn't to say it's an end to everything in a life, but it's a night when God seems to wrap up things well, yet still leave me on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what comes next. Story lines that have been woven into our daily lives are brought to close while recurring characters take their exit. New plot lines are introduced and new characters brought into the mix and my chapter ends always seem to end with a moonlight drive along my Lake. Who knows what comes next? God does. He has put His pen to the page and continues to write. Every second God puts down on the cosmic paper we call the cosmos His story. He has had it in His mind for eternity past and He puts it down constantly in this constant state of flux we call the present. 

He closed my last chapter at a wedding in early June 2013. People left. Things had ended and the uncertain was imminent. I look back at this chapter in amazement. Those questions I had then have been answered and the fears relieved. I am where God wants me with people He wants me with. I am where I belong because I am where God has a use for me. The old chapter's questions have been answered and the next brings new ones. Deep questions, trivial questions, questions of life and death and questions of complete unimportance, all of them will be answered as necessary. Him who began a good work in me will bring it to completion on the day of Christ Jesus. That day is coming and with every chapter's end I come closer to it. The writing goes in an unceasing Present and every page turned is one less page till the great eternal Finale.