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We use a calendar that has 12 months and 365 days in it. As it nears December 31st, we feel as though something is getting close to an end, and yet on January 1st it feels like a new beginning. Our life is composed of many endings and beginnings. We may live one life, but within this one life we have many different journeys.

(Referenser: Habakkuk 3:17)

3867. Verse 33 And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, For Jehovah has heard that I was hated and has given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.

'She conceived again and bore a son', as previously, means spiritual conception and birth from what is external towards things that are more internal still. 'For Jehovah has heard' means in the highest sense providence, in the internal sense the will of faith, in the interior sense obedience, in the external sense the sense of hearing - faith in the will which is received from the Lord alone being meant here. 'That I was hated' means the state of faith if there is no will corresponding to it. 'And has given me this one also' means that which happens next. 'And she called his name Simeon' means the essential nature of it.