Turn! Turn! Turn! Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 MV
One of the songs we highlighted when we started our look at Ecclesiastes back in March was the song “To Everything There is a Season,” also known as “Turn, Turn, Turn” and made famous by a secular group, the Byrds. It comes from the beginning of chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes. It was one of the first large portions of Scripture put into popular music. It seems to highlight the feeling that the cycles of life define us which the author reiterates at the end with the caveats that each moment becomes unique and meaningful, not meaningless, because it happens before a God who knows and sees all and will make things right in the end. Let’s reread the verses. Which one jumps out to you? Now add meat to the idea. If you are planting, what would you plant — perhaps a veggie but perhaps you would like to plant more love? And if you could pluck up something in our world, what would it be — hatred, campaign rhetoric? Let’s spend some time thinking about what these words mean and how they apply to our lives. Blessings as you prepare for worship tomorrow.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
“A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and 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.”
On the Way to Wonder 