For everything there is a season. The well-known verses from Ecclesiastes were
even turned into a well-known popular song in the 1960's, adapted by the rock
musician Peter Seeger from the King James text of this passage from the
Bible. This song became a popular peace
anthem in the 1960s.
What can we, as people of faith, make
of these beautiful, poetic words that are so familiar to us? God has appointed different times and seasons
in the way our world functions; these seasons are a part of the natural order
of things. Our eternal God is beyond the
temporality of the world, even though we live in a world of change. In fact, Father Vincent McNally, the church
history professor I had in seminary, used to commonly say that death and change
were the only constants in our world.
And, if we look at the changes we go through in our faith life, how our
life of faith is constantly evolving and changing as we continue on our journey
of faith, we can appreciate how much change is so much a part of the world and
our lives. And with the tumultuous
changes our national and global economy are enduring right now, change that is
accompanied by a lot of worry and uncertainty, we are all too familiar with the
change that characterizes so much of our lives.
However, even in the midst of all this
change, God is a constant in our lives. As we remember the poetic words of
Ecclesiastes, of the different changes, seasons, and challenges that are a part
of our lives and of our worldly existence, may we put our trust in God, who is
all-knowing, omnipresent, and omniscient.
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