A time for everything — the rhythm of life under the sun.
Solomon's famous list of seasons. Why naming the season you're in is more spiritual than you think.
The episode in a glance.
- 01Written by Solomon late in life — wisdom from the long view.
- 02Life moves in seasons; you can't be in all of them at once.
- 03Naming the season you're in is a spiritual discipline.
- 04God 'makes everything beautiful in its time' — including this one.
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'For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.' Solomon opens chapter three with a list — a time to be born and a time to die, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.
His point: life moves in seasons. You can't be in every season at once. Trying to laugh when it's time to weep — or weep when it's time to dance — fights the rhythm.
That makes naming the season you're in a quiet spiritual discipline. 'Right now is a hard season.' Or, 'This is a season of waiting.' Naming it helps you live it.
Solomon also says, a few verses later, that God 'has made everything beautiful in its time.' Not every season feels beautiful while you're in it. But God works at a different timeline.
If you're in a hard season, you don't have to pretend it's a happy one. You just have to keep walking. The season will turn. The God who makes them beautiful in their time is patient.