Balance and Seasons

"There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:"
-King Solomon

Balance. That is what the world is after. 

Seasons. This is what I am after.

Balance says, you must do all things all the time and keep them all in the air to be equally as important.

Seasons says, this is what you have been given, have grace for the things you cannot do.

Balance says, all of these pressures are on you, and it is your job to keep each of these pressures equally as important all of the time. 

Seasons says, you are to focus on a few things that has been given to you, and do them well.

Balance says, do all that you can do as it comes at you.


Seasons says, all that I give you will not overwhelm.

Balance says, you are greatest when you can do all of these things with the equal amount of skill in the equal amount of time all the time.

Seasons says, you are greatest when you are at your worst and call out for MY help to do them together.

Balance says, when you drop everything you have been keeping up in the air, I will tell you to reset and start over to do the same thing over and over and over and over again.

Seasons says, when you drop everything, rest, learn, heal, for this too is a season. There is nothing you can do that hasn't already been planned for you.

Balance says, do all of this all at the same time...
  be born and die,
  plant and uproot,
3   kill and heal,
  tear down, build,
4   weep and laugh,
  mourn and dance,
5   scatter stones and gather them,
  embrace and refrain from embracing,
6   search and give up,
  keep and throw away,
7   tear and mend,
  be silent and speak,
8   love and hate,
  war and peace...
all at the same time with equal amount of intensity and importance all the time.

Seasons says, 
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,
3     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be 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.

Balance says, Its not easy, it is inevitable that you will try your whole life to achieve me...but in the end with all of your hard work, you may find self fulfillment.

Seasons says, come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.


Replace Seasons with Jesus.

(Inspired from a question I had asked Carey Niewhof, thank you)