“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance… a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace… God has made everything beautiful in its time, and has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
I might add:
- A time of everyday rains and a time of stone-dryness
- A time for hiking & biking and a time to just sit
- A time to wave at every child yelling out to the old white guy on a bike and a time to keep one’s head down, focusing on the bike wheel just a handful of inches in front of one’s own
- A time for patience and a time for impatience
- A time to borrow and a time to return (the truck, bikes, cooking utensils)
- A time to humbly receive people’s goodwill and a time make one’s own way
- A time for thanksgiving and a time of wishing for just a little more
- A time to be forgiven and a time to forgive
God surely has made everything beautiful in its time, good days and difficult days alike, including the seven-months’ time we’ve been in this part of God’s good creation. Deb and I are profoundly grateful for our shared sense of God’s eternal grace for us and for all God’s Children of every nation, tribe, church and political party, none of whom can possibly fathom all God has been doing and wants to do in and through every woman, child and man.
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