It is August

 It is August.  That realization comes at a different pace for different people.  For those who teach, it means that the time is rapidly approaching when students will be back in the classroom and they are likely starting to get into their own space and decorate and begin to work on lesson plans.  For those who are students, it means that the summer is almost over and there is a lot of squeezing as much as possible into each day.  For those who are parents of students it is tracking down classroom supply lists and going to the store to buy the seemingly endless supplies that will have to be replaced - some of them within the first week of school because they are lost by the students who have more important things to think about - like sharing all the end of summer stories with their friends.

For some it is a beginning, for some it is an end.  For me it is both.  It is the end of a summer of not being able to do much of anything for reasons I will not go into.  It is the beginning of a season when hopefully I will be able to resume normal activity.  And this got me thinking that this is how life is with many things.  There are beginnings and ends and sometimes it simply depends on the perspective of the person looking.  

What I am looking forward to most of all is the beginning of something that has no end.  The celebration of life eternal in the presence of our Savior for all eternity.  It is something that we cannot even fathom.  But when that final end happens and there is the ultimate beginning, there will be no more beginnings and ends because there will be no more time.  No more starts and false starts.  No more struggle through or with time.  No more waiting.  No more because time will be no more.  Praise be to God for that glorious coming day.  It is worth the wait.