The Calls of Winter

Friday, January 11, 2013

The holidays are over now, but winter so far hasn't afforded many of us the peace that we imagined. Happenings in life interrupt our plans for meditation, reading, and quiet evenings at home. Solomon's Ecclesiastes lists of "a time for" reads easily this time of year (chapter 3, verses 1-8) but our tendency for spiritual narcissism prompts us to put ourselves into every picture of the reign of God in this fallen world. But notice when Solomon wrote that there is "a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted..." that there is never a call for us to do anything. People die in spite of the best efforts of human hearts and hands, and harvest time will come and go whether or not we reap what we sew.

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