To those of us who are old enough to remember, Peter Seeger wrote the song Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season) in 1959 and recorded it in 1962. It was made famous in 1965 when The Byrds, yes children, The Byrds, recorded it in 1965, and it climbed to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was taken nearly entirely from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. When I read the verses, the words become music in my head again. My wife and I grew up as teenagers in the 1960′s, and this song was a very popular song during our teen years. When I told her about the scriptures that I had read and was trying to decide what to write about, she started humming the song. If you want to hear the song and get the verses, Google “song turn turn turn” and you will be led to it.
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time…”, well a time for most things that I have little control over. There are things that we can change and or at least have an impact on but most of the things in this world that God created and rules are beyond our control. Can we change the seasons? No, but we can be attuned to the world and the people around us and can impact other people’s lives. Not only can we, we will impact other people – that’s just a fact. Whether we impact their lives positively, negatively, or have a neutral impact are somewhat determined by us but can also be affected by the other people, the surroundings, the events that are happening, etc. With God’s help, we will have a positive impact.
