A Time to Hear from One Another

We encounter the timeless poetry of Ecclesiastes about the seasons of our lives. Pete Seeger iconically set this poetry to music so poignant and beautiful that it is known to nearly all of us. Like all good poetry, there is spaciousness to enter it from our many and varied places in life. Some of us may find in these ancient words a seed of despair, some of us a melancholic sort of hope, and still others enormous freedom. There is a time to hear from one another, and today seemed to be that time…

Sermon begins at minute 5:26

Ecclesiastes 1:4-11; 3:1-11
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Ask the Complicated Questions, VT 440 words - ©2018 GIA Publications, Inc., Contributors: David Bjorlin Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Resources

• BibleWorm podcast: For Everything There is a Season, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., June 8, 2020.
• The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018
• “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season”: a song by Pete Seeger, most popularly recorded by The Byrds.

“Mysteries, Yes”, Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver (2010)