In Your End Is Your Beginning - by Elaine Murray (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In Your End Is Your Beginning is a memoir and spiritual wayfinding manual for those navigating the sacred terrain of endings-grief, unraveling, transformation, and the quiet, painful birth of a new self.

Blending personal narrative, contemplative practice, and poetic reflection, this book doesn't offer easy answers or linear resolutions. Instead, it walks with the reader through the threshold spaces where faith is unmade and remade. Rooted in lived experience and grounded in spiritual care, it invites the reader into honest companionship with God, self, and community in the aftermath of loss or change.

This is a book for those standing at the edge of a chapter, wondering if something holy can still grow from what has come undone.

Review Quotes

"With fierce compassion and theological clarity, In Your End Is Your Beginning exposes the socially-sanctioned narratives of shame and control that continue to silence women's experiences in both public and private spaces. Murray's words offer a gracious road map and a trusted compass for those seeking to reclaim dignity, voice, and identity amid personal loss and institutional betrayal. A must-read for those searching for language, meaning, and humanity amid courageous new beginnings."

- Lynn M. Horan, PhD, Author, Dismantled: Abusive Church Culture and the Clergy Women Who Leave

"In Your End Is Your Beginning is a blessing of the truest kind. Elaine is our modern psalmist. This is a love letter, her poem, the depth of a soul laid bare to God-to the humble wholeness of perfectly imperfect humanity. If you are in the wilderness, wondering, praying, seeking, beseeching God, allow this book to be the oasis, the beacon, the way forward you seek."

- Dr. June Christian, Ph.D., Author of The Joyful Leader: From Burnout to Blastoff in 30 Days