Time for Everything

This week is emotionally charged for many - whether you have a new little one going to school for the first time, starting school senior year, first year at college/university (maybe far away from home) or embarking on a new adventure of learning yourself...it's distinctly a time of change.  Leaves are already changing, the temperatures are getting cooler at night, and the days shorter.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 says it well:

 ¹ There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:
 ² a time to be born and a time to die,
   a time to plant and a time to uproot,
 ³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
   a time to tear down and a time to build,
 ⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,
 ⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
 ⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
   a time to keep and a time to throw away,
 ⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
   a time to be silent and a time to speak,
 ⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
   a time for war and a time for peace.
 ⁹ What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet^[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. ¹³ That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. ¹⁴ I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

After a busy summer season, it is nice to draw near to home with heart and hands open to what is next.  Is this a challenge for you - a change of season?  Cling to His promise - that He will make everything beautiful in its time.  I am so thankful that I need not worry about the process or the outcome, safely in the palm of His hand.  Instead, God invites us to find satisfaction in all we do  - that it is a gift from God - all circumstance, all seasons.  Know that I'm praying for you, dear reader, that you would be blessed come whatever in this new season, and see and taste and know that He is God and that with Him all things are indeed possible.

I'm including a fun fashion link I came across in my surfing the net on how to tie(wear) a scarf:
http://www.talbots.com/ca/Popup/scarf_video.html?intcmp=20100311_videos_scarfvideo


Press in and press on,
Giselle