Everything that happens in this world happens at
the time God chooses.

He sets the time for birth and the time for death

the time for planting and the time for pulling up

the time for killing and the time for healing

the time for tearing down and the time for building.  

He sets the time for sorrow
and the time for joy,

  the time for mourning and the time for dancing,

the time for making love    and the time for not making love,

the time for kissing and the time for not kissing.

He sets the time for finding and the time for losing,

the time for saving and the time for throwing away,

the time for tearing and the time for mending,

the time for silence     and the time for talk.

He sets the time for love and the time for hate,

the time for war and the time for peace.

What do we gain from all our work? I know the heavy
burdens that God has laid on us. He has set the right
time for everything.

He has given us a desire to know the future, but never
gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding
what he does. So I realized that all we can do
is to be happy and do the best we can while we are
still alive. All of us should eat and drink and
enjoy what we have worked for. It is God's gift.

Ecclesiates 3 : 1 - 13
the thoughts of "the Philosopher"

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