Last weekend we were expecting a quiet and low key weekend. The only thing we had plan was to go to a wedding. By the way, here is a friendly reminder... don't assume all wedding are in the evening. That assumption almost burned us. It was a 3 o'clock wedding. Now that we knew what time the wedding was we could now plan our lazy day around. So we did!
Everything was going as planned until we received dishearten e-mail. The e-mailed shared how the husband of a couple in our small group had a terrible 4 wheeler accident. He was is now at BAMC and fighting for his life. I personal thought really Lord, our small group already has a lot of pain happening. This is huge! After reading more e-mails and talking with people on phone our heart broke for this family.
Even though my heart was breaking, we still had a wedding to go to at 3pm. As we drove down to San Antonio with a heavy heart I was reminded from the Lord there is a time for everything.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-14
"There is a time for everything, and season for every activity under the heavens: a time to born and time to die, a time to plant and time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to week and time to laugh, a time to mourn a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What do workers gain from their toil. I have seen burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink and find satisfaction in all their toil- this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him."
The Lord reminded that not only will my family and I go through different season of life, but so will life around us. That day we enjoyed time with friends at our house, rejoiced for friends at their wedding and went and cried with friends at the hospital and then we went shopping at Sam's because life goes on.
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