The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that criticizes institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity.
It wasn't until about ten years ago that I took this phrase seriously and applied it to my life, and when an ending in anything comes about I now look forward to the "new beginning." It also was a time I decided that I would worry about things that I really have no control over, let come what may.
Today I was laid off from a company that I only h