Part 1
Life is change; it is creation revealing itself. We can either realize our existence within its movement as a designated part of its Divine design, or we can continue to struggle with unwanted moments in the false belief that the pain of our resistance (to them) proves we know how life is supposed to unfold.
Part 2
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes: nothing departs that hasn’t first arrived; nothing arrives that won’t depart. The awareness of this fact -- coupled with our willingness to embrace, and endure all that it implies -- ensures a glimpse of the following truth that -- once realized -- helps to release us from the fear of death: even though all things must end, so do all things begin again in that exact same moment: a never-ending revelation of a Life that never dies.