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To
Everything There is a Season: . A Time to Weep, A Time to
Laugh.
Ecclesiastes 3
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To Everything There is a
Season
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under
heaven.
How do you look at time? Do you live in the moment? Carpe Diem?
Do
you live in the past? Remembering better times? That special day when
Dad bought you your first bicycle? Or tradgedies? When Grandma was
gone, and Christmas just wasn't the same anymore?
Do you live
in the future? A land of hopes and dreams? Looking forward to
expectations? A new baby? A new car? Empty nesting? Retiring and taking
that trip to Alaska? New Zealand?
How you view time has a
dramatic impact on how you view life. Time can be a collection of
unrelated moments like a pocket of loose change, or a united stream of
minutes like a fine pearl necklace.
Is time a race for you?
Through rush hour traffic? Getting the kids to school on time? Meeting
yet another improbable, or impossible deadline?
"There is a time for
everthing." That sounds like a greater implication of balance. Those
great questions of man, "Who am I?", "Why am I here?" "What's it all
about?" Are they all influenced by time?
To Everything There is a
Season (cont.)
Wise men
and philosophers have spent their lives trying to understand good and
evil. Ying and Yang. God and Satan. How about you? Have you figured it
out?
What is "a season for every activity under heaven?" Spring,
Summer, Fall, and Winter, the four seasons immediately come to mind.
What about seasons of life: Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Parenting,
Late Middle Age, Death? Or seasons of carefree play, school, work and a
career, then retirement?
Have you ever considered a Season of
Friendship? As a small child you may have spent a lot of time with your
best friend. Then you moved. Or they moved. Or you spent more time with
other kids, and the friendship changed. The season changed.
Solomon*
has been called the wisest man who ever lived. In fact, the wisest who
would ever live. He saw the changing, and the recurring seasons of
life. He studied them, and described his thoughts.
In
Ecclesiastes he talked about life, work, time, and God. If the wisest
man in the world thought these questions were important ... well, maybe
they are worth considering.
Journey with Solomon on his adventure. Hear what he has to say about
time, and balance, and more, in the pages ahead.
*
Solomon is often considered the author of Ecclesiastes, though Biblical
scholars sometimes debate this. Rather than enter this debate,
based on the words of the book, and others, we believe Solomon to be
the author. See:
- Wisest man - 1Kings 10:23
- Son of David - Ecc. 1:1
- King of Israel - Ecc 1:12
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