a time for everything

tonight i prayed for peter at youth service, and publicly declared my handover of authority to him. i was glad that i was able to do that. while there were flashes of grief thinking of why i even had to be doing this, i was nonetheless happy that this also meant a change of season in this ministry.

the past few months have been so intense in every sense of the word. very high highs and very low lows. there were days i felt invincible, but there were moments i thought i was going to die from the pain. But in the words of that ancient prose, there is, truly, "A Time for Everything".

¹ There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

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,

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8