Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, can be seen in the picture above (DSC00804).
When I was going through my bible I read over many verses, but the one that "spoke" to me was ECC 3:1-8. There are many different ways one could read and understand this passage, but the main theme from the passage is time, that there is time for everything under the sun. But everything happens in "God's time."
I think that the best example of God's Time is when lightening starts a fire in the forest. The forest will get burnt to a crisp and all of the wildlife lose their homes. The whole place is burnt beyond recognition. One may ask, how any good could come from such a destructive force of nature? All of the trees look like a burnt match stuck upside-down in the dirt. It's only when the forest begins to re-grow itself that you can see that the burn was indeed profitable to the undergrowth of the forest, all of the little plants get fertilized from the ash from their fallen brethren.
One doesn't always understand why bad things happen to good people, until afterwards when you see the situation as a "learning situation." I was always taught that "Hind sight is 20/20" you can't change what you did back then and you can only see what you did wrong because only now can you see the big picture.
(I included some pictures, the first is a picture of a fire and the second of undergrowth soon after one, they are NOT the same forest though)
Here is a link to a video of a good example of the destruction and re-growth of nature, provided by Disney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1oKz9V7NY
CAN YOU SEE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES?
~They didn't love their life so much As to shrink from death, Inspired in their footsteps We will march ahead.
Don't be shocked that people die, Be surprised you're still alive~ ("Cassie" Flyleaf)
When I was going through my bible I read over many verses, but the one that "spoke" to me was ECC 3:1-8. There are many different ways one could read and understand this passage, but the main theme from the passage is time, that there is time for everything under the sun. But everything happens in "God's time."
I think that the best example of God's Time is when lightening starts a fire in the forest. The forest will get burnt to a crisp and all of the wildlife lose their homes. The whole place is burnt beyond recognition. One may ask, how any good could come from such a destructive force of nature? All of the trees look like a burnt match stuck upside-down in the dirt. It's only when the forest begins to re-grow itself that you can see that the burn was indeed profitable to the undergrowth of the forest, all of the little plants get fertilized from the ash from their fallen brethren.
One doesn't always understand why bad things happen to good people, until afterwards when you see the situation as a "learning situation." I was always taught that "Hind sight is 20/20" you can't change what you did back then and you can only see what you did wrong because only now can you see the big picture.
(I included some pictures, the first is a picture of a fire and the second of undergrowth soon after one, they are NOT the same forest though)
Here is a link to a video of a good example of the destruction and re-growth of nature, provided by Disney.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1oKz9V7NY
CAN YOU SEE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES?
~They didn't love their life so much As to shrink from death, Inspired in their footsteps We will march ahead.
Don't be shocked that people die, Be surprised you're still alive~ ("Cassie" Flyleaf)
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