Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (AMP)
3 To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what 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 for war and a time for peace.
As a family, we are in a season of graduations and congratulations, finishing and beginning anew, considering accomplishments and dreaming new dreams, separating and joining together... Surrounded by friends and family, we will share laughter and teary eyed moments... I remembered this passage a coupled days ago when someone asked me if I was a crier when it came to events like graduation. I confessed that more often I am excited for the accomplishment and the next season of life. I thought of how the same season might stir joy in one person and sorry in another. I thought of how quickly the seasons of life change...
Will you join me in allowing the scripture to encourage us today? There truly is a season for everything and if you struggle in your current season will you trust that before long the seasons will change as sure as spring will make way for summer and summer for fall? May your weeping soon give way to laughter and your mourning give way to dancing. And if right now, your season is joyous, will you trust that if it should change without a moments notice, that too will pass as time passes on? Make the most in every season for the God of the seasons is working through every season in you!
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