Today is a day of contrast.  A begining and an end.I filled out the final paperwork for the last of the life insurance claims and I received a check in the mail for the first policy.  No financial worries for now which is a beginning yet it took the end of his life for that to happen.I will be grateful that the benefits were there and that he thought enough of his family to protect us in that way.  It could have been much harder for us.  I received the title to the car in my name and tomorrow it will be sold and by the weekend it should be gone.  Another end that will hallmark a new beginning.I am not sad about any of this, I am grateful that I will have the ability to give my children and me a future.  I will focus on what is positive and put my energy there as I can't change the past.  It has happened and it was sad and hard but it is done and in the past now.My life path has been changed and I have to put one foot in front of the other and make good choices for the children and for me.  There is some blank paper now that needs a new story and I am the writer of that story.I don't know yet what the pages will hold but I have faith and trust that there will be joy for us in this new beginning that was created from an end.