Life is mostly froth and
bubble. Two things stand
like stone. Kindness in
another’s trouble.
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain for embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart: yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.”
The Book of Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is a tough book to read sometimes because of how it rings true -- the older I become.
ReplyDeleteHi Jamie! I very much agree with its toughness at our age. I've read/heard this particular passage hundreds of times, it seems. Wednesday, it probably hit me the hardest for its truth and relevance.
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