Re: I just lost my life long friend today
This world is as imperfect as the beings who inhabit it.<br />I quit asking God, "Why, Lord?", and have started asking "What,Lord?"<br />I know it's next to impossible in your present grief, but please try to take some comfort in knowing God has a time set aside for everthing and everyone.<br />Live to see your friend again, but in God's time, and you will, on God's clock.<br /><br /><br />Ecclesiastes 3 (A Time for Everything)<br /> <br />1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:<br /> <br />2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;<br /> <br />3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;<br /> <br />4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;<br /> <br />5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;<br /> <br />6 a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;<br /> <br />7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;<br /> <br />8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.<br /> <br />9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?<br /> <br />10 ¶ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.<br /> <br />11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.<br /> <br />12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.<br /> <br />13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.<br /> <br />14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.<br /> <br />15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.<br /> <br /><br />The Injustice of Life <br />16 ¶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.<br /> <br />17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.<br /> <br />18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.<br /> <br />19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.<br /> <br />20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.<br /> <br />21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?<br /> <br />22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
