{"id":2382,"date":"2012-03-07T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:04:02","slug":"a-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/03\/07\/a-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A time to dance, a time to adjust our shoe. (Click, and again, for larger view.)<\/a><\/h6>\n

One of the most known passages in Ecclesiastes is the time<\/em> poem . . . a time for this and a time for that.* Then the Byrds came along and made it more so, setting it all to arresting harmonies. The truths seems pretty basic really. Then again, there is a certain permission given, not to mention an understanding about how life works. Whatever the situation is now, there will be another later, and likely opposite. Ours is to not only accept it, but rise to the moment with appropriate response.<\/p>\n

The list is complete enough to symbolize just about everything else we could think of. There’s a time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to uproot, a time to mourn and a time to dance.<\/strong> So it goes for seven plus seven couplets. It’s double complete. But I could add some of my own, like:<\/p>\n

There’s a time to sleep, a time to wake.
\nThere’s a time to give, and a time to receive.
\n<\/strong><\/strong>A time to kiss, a time to not.
\n<\/strong>A time to be light hearted, a time to get serious.
\n<\/strong>A time to give advice, a time to just listen.
\n<\/strong>A time to work, a time to rest.
\n<\/strong>A time for risk, a time to refrain from risking.
\n<\/strong>A time to be sensual, a time to be coy.
\n<\/strong>A time to speak up, a time to shut up.
\nA time to light the fire, a time to let it die.
\n<\/strong><\/strong>A time to say Yes<\/em>, a time to say No . . .\u00a0<\/em>and another time to say Maybe<\/em>, or Later<\/em>, or I don’t know<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But why is this news? Maybe because we can easily get out of balance and think we should be one way all the time . . . like, always pious and lose the joy.<\/p>\n

There’s a time to laugh, but we don’t always laugh.<\/strong>
\n There’s a time to cry, but not always to cry.
\n<\/strong>There’s a time for ideas, and a time to put them to work.
\n<\/strong>There’s a time to win, but we don’t always win.
\n<\/strong>There’s a time to follow, but sometimes we’re to lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The person who feels s\/he always has to act in a certain way is acting against nature. Playwrights cast their actors that way so we can follow the play; but it’s not how God casts us.<\/p>\n

Life is more full, more complex, with sometimes calms and sometimes storms.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we fight; sometimes we refrain from fighting.<\/strong>
\n Sometimes we hoist sails, sometimes we take them down.<\/strong>
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There’s a time for everything; but it’s up to us to know what time it is.<\/p>\n

There’s a time to forgive, a time to ask forgiveness.<\/strong>
\n A time to initiate, a time to be passive.<\/strong>
\n<\/strong> A time to fish, a time to cut bait.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a time to pray, a time to act.<\/strong>
\nA time to spend, a time to save.<\/strong>
\nA time to train a child, a time to watch him go.
\nA time to mow, a time to let the grass grow.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s a time for everything. And everything comes just in time.<\/p>\n

Time. We don’t understand it much, but we live in it. We act like we own it. Rather, it’s given as loan to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s my time,\u201d we like to say, \u201cand what I do with my time is my business.\u201d\u00a0Sounds impressive . . . but whose business is it when your time comes?<\/p>\n

There’s a time for every deed.<\/strong>
\n Once again I say, Godspeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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*Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
\nNext:\u00a0Life’s Little (Unlikely) Instruction Book.\u00a0<\/em>Coming Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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