Birthpains

This world suffers the "beginning of birth pains". As I think of what lies ahead, I realize that I had dreaded it, as if I have been condemned to share this world's final death throes. But the suffering of the last days is not described as birth pains-- not death throes.

Like other birth pains, these trumpet the arrival of a new stage of life. This is not the end of all things.

This is only the beginning.

-a.