Everything Has Its Time

Tradition and Wisdom
Teaching and Learning:
Superiority of Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

The Message

There's a Right Time for Everything

 ¹ There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

 ^2-8 A right time for birth and another for death,
   A right time to plant and another to reap,
   A right time to kill and another to heal,
   A right time to destroy and another to construct,
   A right time to cry and another to laugh,
   A right time to lament and another to cheer,
   A right time to make love and another to abstain,
   A right time to embrace and another to part,
   A right time to search and another to count your losses,
   A right time to hold on and another to let go,
   A right time to rip out and another to mend,
   A right time to shut up and another to speak up,
   A right time to love and another to hate,
   A right time to wage war and another to make peace. .

For Reflection
All of this happens.  None of this happens at the same time.  Little of this happens when we want it to.  All of it is good, birth and death: crying and laughing alike.  In other words, life happens and it is all good.  Life is full of hope because God is present in all life events.  Lean on Him and laugh with Him.

Pray
that you will embrace all of live, the fortunate and the unfortunate.  Pray that you will be comforted in the knowledge that God makes it all good.