{"id":4322,"date":"2014-02-09T17:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2014-02-09T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:37:51","slug":"an-ending-and-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/an-ending-and-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ending and a New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last four years I have had the privilege of teaching an amazing group of young women every Sunday at church and then attending weekly fun activity nights with them on Wednesday evenings.\u00a0 Four years ago I was assigned to teach the 14 and 15 year old girls in a class and then after two years I was reassigned to teach the 16 and 17 year old girls, which were the very same girls that had now grown older, so I was able to teach the same set of girls for four year span.\u00a0 These girls have become like daughters to me.\u00a0 I have watched them grow and mature over the four years we have spent together.\u00a0 We have talked about a multitude of topics during that four year span, both spiritual in topic as well as temporal.\u00a0 We have laughed together and cried together.\u00a0 I have seen them blossom from young girls to gorgeous and refined young women.\u00a0 I am so proud of these girls and I love every one of them very much.\u00a0 Today was my last class to teach my girls as my time teaching them has come to an end and a new person will be given the opportunity to begin teaching them.\u00a0 It was an emotional day today to say the least.\u00a0 I will miss having all that time with those sweet girls\u2026they are amazing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Endings are always hard.\u00a0 Letting go of something you care about is hard.\u00a0 But endings are also necessary as they allow for new beginnings to occur. If nothing ever came to an end then nothing new could ever begin. That is what we must remind ourselves of whenever we have to deal with something we love coming to an end as knowing that will help to see us through\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a great poem about the people that come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366; text-decoration: underline;\">Reason, Season, or Lifetime<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">When you figure out which one it is,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">you will know what to do for each person.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">When someone is in your life for a REASON,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They have come to assist you through a difficulty;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">to provide you with guidance and support;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They may seem like a godsend, and they are.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They are there for the reason you need them to be.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Some people come into your life for a SEASON,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They may teach you something you have never done.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014 Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To those young women I taught I want them to know that even though our season together has come to an end, they will be a part of my life for a lifetime!\u00a0 \u00a0I love you all very much!\u00a0 And that love will never end!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0~Amy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last four years I have had the privilege of teaching an amazing group of young women every Sunday at church and then attending weekly fun activity nights with them on Wednesday evenings.\u00a0 Four years ago I was assigned to teach the 14 and 15 year old girls in a class and then after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2163,2164,1118,1736,650,2864,3094,3444,3087,51,1976,189,591,7,2180,1477,55,180,3443,3440,764,1455,232,104,716,1695,35,11,3441,3439,2316,1031,2817,1921,1668,1662,3446,2789,509,1723,3445,483,1936,3442,1134,1465],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-begin","tag-beginning","tag-church","tag-cried","tag-dating","tag-daughters","tag-ending","tag-endings","tag-eternity","tag-family","tag-forever","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-future","tag-gospel","tag-grow","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-laughed","tag-laurel","tag-lds","tag-lds-church","tag-lessons","tag-let-go","tag-letting-go","tag-lifetime","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-mature","tag-miamaid","tag-modesty","tag-past","tag-reason","tag-refined","tag-sad","tag-sadness","tag-scriptures","tag-season","tag-spiritual","tag-student","tag-sunday-school","tag-teach","tag-teacher","tag-temporal","tag-young-women","tag-young-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}