Monday, 25 September 2006

There Is a Season

I've been an absolute trainwreck recently. Nothing seems to be of much comfort after Saturday's news, but I found some this morning at long last after a troubled sleep.

I was looking through my enormous collection of mp3s and found a track in a State Honors Choir recording from back when I was a junior in high school. The SSAA Honors Choir performed a piece called "There Is a Season," and the words the song borrows from Ecclesiastes 3:1-7 seem to have finally help calm my mind a little.

To everything there is a season,

To everything there is a time,

A time to be born and a time to die,

A time to plant and uproot.

To everything there is a season,

To everything there is a time,

A time to tear down and a time to build,

A time to weep and for laughter.

If we dance the dance of life,

We must dance the dance of death.

To everything there is a season,

To everything there is a time,

A time to embrace and a time to refrain,

A time to keep and a time to lose,

And a time for all to keep silence.

If we dance the dance of life,

We must dance the dance of death.

To everything there is a season,

To everything there is a time,

A time to embrace and a time to refrain,

A time to keep and a time to lose,

And a time for all to keep silence.

This must be that time to weep, but I know that the time for laughter will eventually come again.

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