Ecclesiastes 3:2-5,ecclesiastes 1:4-9

For Reading and Meditation:     Ecclesiastes 3:2-4a

Perhaps no better cross-section of life can be found anywhere than in these beautiful and poetic verses. Solomon unfolds for us the variety of life, all of which takes place under the providential hand of God. There are fourteen contrasts. (1) There is a time to be born and a time to die. No one can negotiate his or...