When the End is a New Beginning

 I came to the end of a journal

 at the end of 2018. 

Full- no pages left.

2,770 days of counting gifts.

Started in August 2011.

That was to be the one year experiment.

Imagine my surprise-

when something is so far off your horizon,

you can't even picture what 2, 4, 7 years of 

a spiritual discipline practice might look like.

 Another journal has been the gathering of 

Prayers by the Month.

Actually that began in Feb 2011

 and has included a couple of different journals.

So I sat them on the shelf-

these old friends.

I have made another journal

 to start 2019 and combine 
both practices in one journal.

This was the solution that a team of

 Millennials came up with for a retreat awhile back.

Sounds good to me.

Think I would have started out

 that way but hadn't designed the 

Prayers by the Month as a practice

 that worked for ME yet.

 I will keep these old journals close by--

 for within the pages of Living Eucharisteo

are the highs and lows and blessings

 right in the middle of messy life living.

Since I have a diagnosis of Spiritual Amnesia 

and forget the gifts from the Father- 

one week or one month ago,

pretty sure I can't remember 5 years ago.

But, the testimony will be there.

For that I GIVE THANKS.

So time with those journals has ended,

but I look forward to the new beginning.
Even though I might need
 to revisit them once in awhile.