This is my fear and my hope. There is a time to dance, although I could never dance. There is a time to hug each other. There is a time for peace. There is a time to love. Will that time come during my lifetime? I do not know.
This post responds to the song “Turn, Turn, Turn” written by Pete Seeger in 1959 and released by “The Byrds” in 1965–while I was very young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVOJla2vYx8
Now I offer an idealistic song from my youth. It’s quoted almost entirely from Scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, which I quote in the graphic. Even the idea that “what has already been done will be done again” has been taken from Ecclesiastes 1:9.
This is my fear and my hope. There is a time to dance, although I could never dance. There is a time to hug each other. There is a time for peace. There is a time to love. Will that time come during my lifetime? I do not know.
“The Byrds” applied the last lines of their song to a war, but I apply them to my life itself:
“A time for peace / I swear it’s not too late!”
