A Time for Everything

 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 from 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

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11