The Times of our Lives…
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Well it finally happened. I am friends on facebook with a dog. Not just any dog. A dead dog. That’s right – I didn’t know that the dog was deceased – nor did I know it was a dog – it was an honest mistake. I was looking for an old friend of ours from Alaska with the same name – I mean it is an unusual name after all – not common or ordinary and so I really thought I was safe. It took a few months to be accepted – and I was so excited to finally have found her!! I even wrote “Welcome to Facebook” on her wall. But I should have known something was terribly wrong when the birthdate said “1995″ and she is older than I am. Hmmmm. I still didn’t think too much about it – even though the profile picture was a picture of a dog. So what? Everyone has weird pictures once in awhile for their profile picture – why not a dog? But being the observant person that I am I didn’t notice a thing – UNTIL…. Greg was also “accepted” as a friend by this person – and being the observant detail oriented person that he is – he noticed right away that this person – WAS NOT a person at all – but a dog. And not just any dog. A Dead Dog. That’s right. Laugh if you want. This is a true story – I’m not making any of it up. And this would explain the picture of the dog and R.I.P. HoneyBee.
Well anyway – completely off the above subject – I was contemplating the scripture passage from Ecclesiastes today as I was returning in my car from doing “Hot Yoga” and listening to a nostalgic song on my CD player. It is so true about the different “seasons” in our lives – or as this translation puts it – different “times”. I have found myself in a different “time” of my life lately – as I have been reviewing my life. This passage of scripture has a new meaning for me today than it did 5 or 10 years ago – even 5 months ago. I am changing. You are changing. That is the constant in life. Change. I can appreciate with fresh perspective just what those changes mean – some good – some bad – but nevertheless – still changing – still growing – still becoming whether I am aware of it or not – whether I am always a willing participant or not. There is a time for everything. And some things circle back around. Some things are not for now – some things were for then – some things are for the future and are still to come. Some things we know we cannot change – some things we are hopeful that they will – in time – in God’s time.
Maybe you are hanging on to a “someday” of your own. Just know this: There is a time and a season under heaven. I am praying for you
God Bless
Ecclesiastes 3
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1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
3 A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
5 A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;
8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
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I guess we could have looked and seen that this person has only six friends total…but who’s counting? And from the other entry I see on the page, it looks like Honey Bee (bless her poor departed canine heart) has been gone almost a year!
Seriously though, I can appreciate the new “seasons” you speak of…this is definately one for me too!
Yeah – laugh all you want LOL!!!
Oh I had such a laugh about the dog friend of yours! LOL