Ending Where It Began - But Better

"Anthropologist Mary Douglas, in her posthumous masterpiece, Thinking in Circles, discovered that ancient writings such as the Hebrew Scriptures were written not in linear sequences, but in circuitry. You start at the beginning, and end back at the beginning, but not the beginning where you began. You end at a new beginning, where you have grown and matured, discovered something new, and found something newly valued."
(Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)