Time

Ecc.3:1-11 NRSV

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. 

What gain have the workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”

Just as we all have a life season - our time to be born and to die, there are so many seasons intertwining our lives. Yes, it is wise to recognize the season and when it is over, recognize that in order to move on. 

We can’t keep pouring into a season that is done- you know trying to revive it. Trying to make it fit.  The seasons are indeed a mystery and each one serves a purpose in our lives. 

I like how Henri Nouwen likens the season to God as a trapeze artist. He swings us out and lets us go- to soar! And as we are soaring just when we begin to wonder- he catches us!  Oh the soaring. And then he swings us again- to again soar- and he again catches us. 

Here’s the thing- when he lets us go to soar, we can’t soar if we grab him at that point, if we can’t trust what he’s doing with us at that point. And yet he catches us. 

This is a season of transition for some of us. Let’s go with it is and watch what God is doing. enough for now