A Time For Everything

"There is a given time for everything and a time for every happening under heaven:

A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting.

A time for killing, a time for healing; a time for knocking down, a time for building.

 A time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing.

A time for throwing stones, a time for gathering stones; a time for embracing, a time to refrain from embracing.

A time for searching, a time for losing; a time for keeping, a time for throwing away.

A time for tearing, a time for sewing; a time to be silent, and a time to speak.

A time for loving, a time for hating; a time for war, a time for peace.

What profit is there for a man from all his toils?

Finally, I considered the task GOD gave to the humans.  HE made everything fitting in its time, but HE also set eternity in their hearts, although they are not able to embrace the work of GOD from the beginning to the end." - Ecclesiastes 3:1-11  

(In this chapter, Ecclesiastes looks at all aspects of the human condition, one after the other, beginning with surest: death. 

So, if all that humans build must be destroyed, what is left to them?  That each of us must die, this we can accept, and it is not absurd if the world continues to be.  Instead, it is impossible to think that one day all must stop and forever die.

Yet this is the only perspective left to us from a materialist view of the universe.  There will not even be someone to remember that humans did exist, suffer and love: no one can face such an eventuality.)

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