3 There is a right time for everything, and everything on earth will happen at the right time.
2 There is a time to be born and a time to die. There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants. 3 There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build. 4 There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to be sad and a time to dance with joy. 5 There is a time to throw weapons down and a time to pick them up. There is a time to hug someone and a time to stop holding so tightly. 6 There is a time to look for something and a time to consider it lost. There is a time to keep things and a time to throw things away. 7 There is a time to tear cloth and a time to sew it. There is a time to be silent and a time to speak. 8 There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.
Some of these are hard to read, aren’t they? A time to die, a time to kill, a time to hate, a time for war. Those are ones I don’t like to think about much, but I think the author is just wanting us to see that there is a time for everything and that we should take the time, notice the time, be present in the time, in the now rather than rushing about always thinking of the future or the past. Live in this time, experience it, enjoy it because this time too shall pass.
Gracious God,
Forgive us when we rush through time trying to get to the next moment, the next thing. Help us to live here today, to embrace the present time. Amen.
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