Thursday, October 16, 2025

A Time and a Place

 

When Pete Seeger reacted musically to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, he created the song, "Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There Is a Season)". When Phil Keaggy took HIS turn at it, he added Matthew 6:26 and produced "A Time and a Place".

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There is a time and a place for everything
This is the time, this is the place
And we can sing songs and play guitar
And shoot the breeze,
And we can talk about the human race
After all we are part of it all.

Have you considered the sparrows up above?
They do not sow, they do not reap.
And yet your Heavenly Father feeds them,
And His love for you is much more deep.
After all you are part of it all.

Said the robin to the sparrow
I would really like to know
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so
Said the sparrow to the robin
Friend, I think that it must be
That they have no Heavenly Father
Such as cares for you and me

Have you considered the sparrows up above?
They do not sow, they do not reap
And yet your Heavenly Father feeds them
And His love for you is much more deep
After all you are part of it all

There is a time and a place for everything
This is the time, this is the place
This is the time and the place for Jesus
'Cause Jesus is everything to me


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Truth is...We seem to rush through life. Hurrying to finish tasks, eat meals, go places, do things . . . And a lot of that hurrying is due to worrying. And a lot of that worrying is due to messed-up priorities and placing trust in our efforts instead of in our Lord.

Father, help us to slow down, make you our everything, and consider the sparrows.

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