Pastoral Ponderings
“Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.” — Psalm 74:17 (KJV)
Sometimes we forget that the Seasons are also a part of Creation. Without the seasons we would have no food, or water, or the essentials of life. It is the Seasons that allow the seeds to germinate, the snow and rain to re-circulate all the water that God created for us. The Teacher, writing in Ecclesiastes, famously reminds us of this in Chapter 3 verse 1 when he says: “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven.” I don’t think any of us can hear that verse without singing the 1959 Pete Seeger song, “Turn, Turn, Turn” which was made popular by the Byrds!. . .

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