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– My favorite idea so far brought up is @samantha-pen‘s mention of a content to struggle type ending. It seems like something that could really be deeply meaningful without much exposition, fit well within the space we’re allowed and really embody the non-cliched happy ending in that it’s deeply joyful but also deeply wrapped up in very real sorrow and pain. Maybe it could be someone going through a really dark season and is deeply despairing and close to wanting to just give up. They’re in the darkest of nights, but for a moment they catch sight of the coming dawn and make the choice to endure. There is a whispering in the wind of a time when all will be made right, when death will be overthrown, when tears will only become a memory. There is hope of the sun bursting forth into glorious day. And so they will endure. The ending would have pain and sadness and weakness but creeping hope and a newfound, stubborn joy. It could definitely be allegorical. A lot of times stories forget about suffering in anticipation and, especially given our length constraints, it might be nice to just focus on that. We can only tell just a chapter of a larger story, after all, and this is a chapter that is also the chapter every believer on Earth is in right now. For now, our joy is intertwined with sorrow and deep, aching longing and the culmination of our hope has yet to come to pass. And still we hope, and we rejoice in it.