Everything in Its Time

“There is a time for everything, And a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV

You cannot work an eighty hour week, revel in a rewarding marriage, and raise well adjusted children. You want to, I know. I did too. But we can’t. It is physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually impossible. We have tried. We have failed. We cannot override the sacred rhythms of Heaven and Earth just because it would be convenient, just because it would fit fabulously into our perfect plans. We have tried. We have failed. When we cannot do it all at the same time, we are meant to do only some of it. In order to find out what that “some” is to be, we need to ask: How much does it cost in my life’s currency?

 This might be the season for you to wipe a runny nose. That doesn’t mean the season of running your own business won’t happen. This might be the season of living out of a suitcase. That doesn’t mean the season of living in a family farmhouse will never come. Cutting business deals doesn’t mean you won’t ever be cutting sandwiches for your littlies lunchbox or cutting cakes in your artisanal bakery. This might be the season for writing blog posts. That doesn’t mean you won’t be writing a blockbuster bestseller.

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, forced or faked, just full. Full. Full.

You probably can have it all, just not all at the same time, and you might have to make certain compromises. But your children are only going to be little for a very short period of time. It will go by in a blink of an eye, and you will have a time to do what you want to do, the way you want to do it, where you want to do it.

Blessed is the one who recognises the reason and the season, embraces both the ebbs and flows of daily life, is forward thinking, yet lives in the present, and embraces the reality of the right here, right now.

“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.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 GNT

Dear God,

Thank you that you remind us that there is a time for everything and that everything happens in its time. We don’t always understand the season or the time, but we are comforted that every promise is ‘Yes and amen’ in Christ. If you have promised it, it will happen. May we lean into your Grace and find the rest for our souls to be present to this moment.

Amen

What do you think of the idea of being able to “do it all”?

If there is a ‘season for everything’ and that everything happens ‘in its time’, what is your sense of the season you are in right now?

What season are you still trusting for?