Thanks to a co-worker's devotional at today's staff meeting I have my Gratitude Attitude for the day. He just sparked the idea, the Attitude is all mine. :)
For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;
A time to kill, a time to heal; a time to tear down, a time to build up;
A time to cry, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, a time to dance;
A time to scatter stones, a time to pile them up; a time for a warm embrace, a time for keeping your distance;
A time to search, a time to give up as lost; a time to keep, a time to throw out;
A time to tear apart, a time to bind together; a time to be quiet, a time to speak up;
A time to love, a time to hate; a time to go to war, a time to make peace.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
If you read those verses carefully you may notice, as I did, that they pretty much cover every aspect of life. They detail anything we experience or go through. There is a time, a season, for everything that happens in our lives. I'm grateful for this reminder because I can be assured that if there is a season of mourning then there will also be a season of dancing. I can know that just as there is a time gathering there will also be a time of scattering and both are okay. Later on in verse 11 we are assured that God takes all that the times and seasons that we go through and he creates beauty from them. I can be grateful for the hard and the good of each season because of the beauty I know that will be birthed from it.
For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;
A time to kill, a time to heal; a time to tear down, a time to build up;
A time to cry, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, a time to dance;
A time to scatter stones, a time to pile them up; a time for a warm embrace, a time for keeping your distance;
A time to search, a time to give up as lost; a time to keep, a time to throw out;
A time to tear apart, a time to bind together; a time to be quiet, a time to speak up;
A time to love, a time to hate; a time to go to war, a time to make peace.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
If you read those verses carefully you may notice, as I did, that they pretty much cover every aspect of life. They detail anything we experience or go through. There is a time, a season, for everything that happens in our lives. I'm grateful for this reminder because I can be assured that if there is a season of mourning then there will also be a season of dancing. I can know that just as there is a time gathering there will also be a time of scattering and both are okay. Later on in verse 11 we are assured that God takes all that the times and seasons that we go through and he creates beauty from them. I can be grateful for the hard and the good of each season because of the beauty I know that will be birthed from it.
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