An end or a beginning?

Tonight I went to the final service at a local Baptist Church.  It was closing but as the minister there (a friend) said... it was only that the church was leaving the building.  In so many ways this was a celebration of all that the church had done over the years in that place, things that would never be undone and that will live on... but of course it was also tinged with sadness... and a farewell to a wonderful woman who swept me up and into the local group of ministers the moment I arrived here.  During the service, a cake was cut and shared by us all, and I got an edge bit with extra icing!!! At the end of the final song we left the building, watched the lights being turned off and the doors locked before we prayed outside the building.  Very poignant!  Endings are merely beginnings!  On the cross Jesus said it was finished.... but then Sunday came!!!