Ecclesiastes

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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, 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 keep silence and a time to speak: a time to love and a time to hate: a time of war and a time of peace.

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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, 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 keep silence and a time to speak: a time to love and a time to hate: a time of war and a time of peace.

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Behind The Art

I like this text, yet it is not my favorite.  My wife, however, is very fond of it. “How would you like to write the Ecclesiastes commentary?”, I asked her.  At once after reading what she had written, I liked the scripture better than I had before, saw it in a new light.
 
"The author of one of the Bible commentaries suggests that Ecclesiastes has an air of futility, and that if he “is making a case, the defendants are not in court.”  In Genesis, the earth was without form and void and God set about systematically creating an orderly world.  Whatever the author of Ecclesiastes meant, it says to me that there is order in the world and it is available to us; that we have to find it, or wait for it, and we have to use it.
 
We need not dwell in chaos."

—Michael