Today the sun is out and bright and warming up Seabrook, TX where I now live. It is a nice day, we had our morning devotion and breakfast and Will is long gone to go to work. I am sitting here and thinking about life in general feeling grateful for all the blessings in it.
There have been challenges as well. January and October used to be much loved and waited for months of the year for my family. My sister Seni as well as twin brothers Koko and Richard were born in January. We looked forward to celebrating their birthdays and thanking God for them. October was much waited for kind of a moth also because my sisters Nutei and LT were born in it.
In 1976 October became a dreaded month for our family as Richard died on Oct.4th of that year. But now the last many years we are back on track with happiness in October. The sting of Richard's death lingered on for years. But each year we learned to remember the lively Richard and all the blessings he was even as short a time as he lived with us here. Now we only remember him as a sweet little boy who came to us last and left us first for heaven. We love him so.
January is another story still. God decided to call mother home on Jan. 3rd. 2009, 4 days before Koko's birthday and 14days before Seni's. We now (the last 2 years) waited for the birth of Jesus at Christmas almost as usual with great joy and anticipation. And then we dreaded for Jan 3rd to arrive for it brings us sadness and bitterness of the taste of death in our hearts. My mother was 46 when father died. She was a wise woman who was tough and loving for the next 27 years.
This January was a bit better than the last. They say only time heals. I say, "They are absolutely right!". As January is winding out of this year's calendar, I am pondering upon how time does heal the hurting hearts. I look forward to many more January-s to come. This is a long way of saying I love Ecclesiastes 3:1-15. Today, once more I give thanks to God for this passage in the Bible.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
9 What gain have the workers from their toil?
10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
13 moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.
14 I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.
15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is; and God seeks out what has gone by.
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