“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, 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 for his toil? I have considered the task that God has appointed for the sons of men to be busied about. He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without man’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.” (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11)
This was yesterday’s first reading for a daily mass. I don’t have a thoughts to add, just taking in how it holds true. Every day and time are different. May we embrace the moment, experience, and lessons in each and all lived.
“Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity…”
“One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays…What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun. Even the thing of which we say, ‘See, this is new!’ has already existed in the ages that preceded us. There is no remembrance of the men of old; nor of those to come will there be any remembrance among those who come after…” (Ecclesiastes 1: 4, 9-11)