A piece of writing from Ecclesiastes is popular at weddings, funerals, and special occasions and I wonder why because it is rather dispiriting, the positives and negatives of life. Perhaps we do need both to understand that life does have contrasts. A time to be planting.... and the reckoning when the bouganvillea is dying. How different and how sad. ;Yesterday my son started demolishing the almost dead bouganvillea in front of our house, one part had even rooted into the rooftop. Very prickly and tangled, but it was time.
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A Time for Everything
1There
is a time for everything,
and a
season for every activity under the heavens:
2a time
to be born and a time to die,
a time
to plant and a time to uproot,
3a time
to kill and a time to heal,
a time
to tear down and a time to build,
4a time
to weep and a time to laugh,
a time
to mourn and a time to dance,
5a time
to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time
to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6a time
to search and a time to give up,
a time
to keep and a time to throw away,
7a time
to tear and a time to mend,
a time
to be silent and a time to speak,
8a time
to love and a time to hate,
a time
for war and a time for peace.
