"Turning" to a New Season

 

For some reason, the words to
"Ecclesiastes 3:1-11" seem appropriate as we welcome this first day of Autumn, 2021.

The thoughts about life's journey are simple, beautiful and profound---just like the glorious weather and scenes we are enjoying this week. 

So, I'll keep it simple today and let these timeless words set the tone for this new season. 

A reading from the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1-11

There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every affair under the heavens.
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.

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 scatter stones, and a time to gather them;
a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away.

A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.
What advantage has the worker from toil?

I have considered the task
which God has appointed for us to be busied about.

He has made everything appropriate to its time,
and has put the timeless into our hearts,
without our ever discovering,
from beginning to end,
the work which God has done.

The Word of the Lord