 I am thankful to live in a part of Florida that still has seasons and we don’t live in eternal summer. We have the freezing temperatures of winter. We have pollen season; I mean spring. We have the blistering heat of summer and the mild cooling off of fall. Right now schools have let out for the school year and the number on the thermometer is rising. Seasons are changing. In preparation for summer course changes, I was going through previous memory verse passages I have worked with my kids on. One passage in particular struck me.
1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? 10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 11 He hath made every [thing] beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. - Ecc 3:1-11 KJV This was an important passage of principles I want my children to learn. There is an appropriate time for everything. There are times to laugh and joke, but also time to be serious. There are times to give, but there are also times to keep things for ourselves. At first glance that is the principle of this passage but as I meditated on it there was a depth to this that is easily passed over. Seasons are important not just in nature, but God gave them to us for our lives.
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