Land’s End

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Land’s End is located at the very South Western tip of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. And when you get there, and keep driving the road, it will bring you to the point where the land ends. Where you will only see the sea in front of you.

I have been thinking about Land’s End this past week. Funnily enough it kept coming up when I was pondering the year’s end.

The similarity is that what we know is ending in favor for something different, something adventurous, something new. On the other hand, while Land’s end is a place, the year’s end is a time.
In a sense it is the perfect point for time and space to come together…

There are not many places that have such a dramatic shift attached to both their names and locations. We tend to be much more occupied with time than we are with places. Visiting those places we can always do when we have time (!).

And even when we are thinking about the earth we all live on; when we are thinking about the end of the earth, we tend to say that we are running out of time as far as preserving the earth for those who will come after us.
We look at the ultimate place we live, the earth, as time. And in doing so, we are making it another perfect point for time and space to come together. Although in this case we may know even less about that which might await us in that new space, that new time.

Because that is what it is all about ~ whether we come to the location, or arrive at that time ~ it is all about standing at that point which we know, and looking out over that which is new to us.
The newness. All the discoveries that are yet to be made. The places, and the times that we eagerly await seeing and experiencing. The new things we can make happen in our lives. The new places to see and spaces to be…

The question then becomes whether or not we dare embark upon that new journey. If we are willing to truly go for that new adventure.
Or do we rather stay with what we know. Enjoying our comfort zones. Knowing where we are at, and knowing that when we don’t step out into that newness, we will know where we will be ~ tomorrow, next month, even next year…

And that is the question I am pondering while I envision myself standing there, at the end of the road in Land’s End…
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