Experienced this a lot this past week: a time to die, a time to heal, a time to break down, a time to weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn, a time to embrace, a time to refrain from embracing, a time to speak, a time to love, a time for war.
Life is not a simple thing. It is messy and complicated and intertwined, but that's the point. It's intertwined. There are times of incredible pain and grief and hardship and confusion, but those can, and almost always are, intermixed with times of love and laughter and friendship and joy. It's not an either or situation. It's both.
If things are hard, look for the good, and if you can't see it, know it's there or will be there.
If things are good, enjoy them and savor them for what they are, and also use them to recharge and buoy yourself for either the rough times that will come or to help lift up others who are currently going through them.
Life is awful and amazing all at once. Live it to the fullest.
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The song that really stuck out to me this morning was Let Me Drown by We As Human. (There were actually several We As Human songs that stuck out to me today) It's not really about this, but it has a line that says, "There's a time to be born And a time to die And somewhere they collide"
Listen to the song here: https://g.co/kgs/rDy9Y8
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"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace."
-- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV
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