“Measure in Love” — Jennifer Baergen Davis

² a time to be born and a time to die;
   a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;
³ a time to kill and a time to heal;
   a time to break down and a time to build up;
⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh;
   a time to mourn and a time to dance;
⁵ a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together;
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ a time to seek and a time to lose;
   a time to keep and a time to throw away;
⁷ a time to tear and a time to sew;
   a time to keep 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 gain have the workers from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. ¹¹ He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. ¹² I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; ¹³ moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil. ¹⁴ I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it; God has done this so that all should stand in awe before him. ¹⁵ That which is already has been, that which is to be already is, and God seeks out what has gone by.