A Time For Everything

There is a famous song by The Byrds called "Turn! Turn! Turn!" where the lyrics are remotely based off the passage in Ecclesiastes 3 titled, "A Time for Everything."

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

² 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.

I was pondering life in the shower tonight, that's were I really get to be a lone and think and a strange way pray. Just me, myself, God and the shampoo, very spiritual right?! Well this passage struck me, I've read it over and over again, sang a long to it, and just realized tonight that there really is a time and a place for everything. It's my nature to get done as much possible in a window of time as possible. If I know that I need to do "x,y and z" then I'll do them as fast and efficiently as I can, but I tend to rush through things, and not enjoy them when I should. Yesterday my best friend and I both conveniently were driving for 2 hours somewhere, so we used that whole time to have our "life chat" session. There's was this large elephant in the conversation that both us knew, but didn't want to bring up. A certain someone getting married today. I'll spare you the drama and the details, and I knew she didn't want to talk about it until all the sudden she goes "It's ok, there's a time it was going to happen, I'm at peace with it." Isn't it crazy how God has everything SO planned out, that there is a time and a place for everything?! Like He is always looking out for us! He never ceases to amaze me and how he prepares our heart for a time and place. She's in a place she never saw herself and loving life, looking back at how far she's come.

About a week and a half ago my friend Kristen and I drove about 5 hours to a small mining town called Silverton, a mountain that will scare the living daylight out of you if your not ready. After a 15 min life clinching chairlift ride where we had to hold onto the side of this vintage two seater with no bar, about 300 ft in the air over these peaks, we pack our skis on our back, and hike. And keep hiking, and wait still some more. I'm looking down and around and just amazed. Never would I have done this on my own, never would I have thought to push myself to ski down something like this, but there's a time. You sit and stare at God's abundance, His presence known every where, and you keep on turning. I look at this past year of my life, where I've been and how I've grown. I don't like looking back or ripping old scares, to think about my life a year ago, I can't help but laugh and give God the praise for His abundance blessing. He's provided me with a loving and supporting boyfriend who day in and out loves me, a family who has been nothing but supportive, a job I've been pushed and challenged with, but love, and a future that is as wild as my past. I used to be a planner, I had my 5 year plan, 10, and 20, but there's a time and a place for it all. So let every season turn, turn, turn.

Seasonal Depression.

I need sunshine. I need warm weather. Today it hit about 47 degrees and sunshine and I was literally laying on the sidewalk trying to grasp a few warm rays. It's funny how something like sunlight and warmth can make you happy after 3 months of sub zero blizzards.

Maybe that's why I decided to move to Nantucket for the summer, something new. Change from what I have now. We get in such a monotonous routine, that when change occurs we run to it like a fly to a white light. "IT'S JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL!!!" (Bug's Life anyone?!) I'm ready to chase something new, ready to soak up sunshine after months of our "La Nina" winter storms. I'm ready for sail boats and marinas, beaches and fishing. I wish I was sharing it with the one I love, but God has bigger and better plans.

If you have followed my past posts at all (I don't know who actually reads this) but you know how my mind just jumps from topic to topic, once I get writing it's like "thought vomit" and ideas just start spewing everywhere.

So the last few days I've been reading Ecclesiastes. . . The book itself is an interesting read because it cut's straight to the point, it describes what is meaningless and what we should strive for. Cut throat, black and white. I just finished the book tonight, ending on chapter 12 which went on to show us how we look to God when the times get rough. Remember Him before everything breaks down. . . As soon as something goes wrong, then we panic. Why not always run to God? Keep Him first in everything we do, then when something breaks down you'll never have to run. We get so caught up in our lives that it takes something to break time and time again for God to show us that He's working in us. Trust Him, always keep Him first, we can't do it all on our own and expect Him to just pick up the pieces with the broom following behind you. I'm watching someone I love get broken down, God molding him into the man He wants him to be. Moses wandered for 40 years, we could be here for a while.

Tomorrow is Valentines day. I preferred to call it Singles Awareness Day, but I guess that won't fly anymore ha. So I'm lucky enough now to get my first Valentines. Last year on this day I got stood up, went to visit my Grandfather's grave and talked to one of my best guy friends over bbq. Valentines day is a strange day for me.

"Now these three remain faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love." 1 Corinthians 13:13.

SO LOVE ON!

My mind is all over the place.

Making the big step.

I'm moving.

May 19th.

Far far away.

I'm nervous and excited, is that at all for real?!

I'll write more when I feel like it. Tomorrow seems like a good day for that.