A Time to Heal – From Ecclesiastes to Easter. Time has done funny things in this last year. It feels as if all our rhythms of life have been upended and we have had to manage time in a very different way. At moments time has seemed like it is never ending, each day spanning into the horizon as we adapt to how to be very much more local and centred at home. The rush of life curtailed and stopped. Time has on other occasions felt earth shatteringly short as more and more has been crammed into the 24 hours available during the day. I know some parents who wake at 5am to work for three hours, before then home schooling for the next 6, and then picking up work again late into the evenings. It has for some felt like ground hog day. Time means different things to different people and circumstances and for all people that in itself has been fundamentally changed in the last year. As this April 2021 and Easter comes around again it is a passage from Ecclesiastes that I have been pondering. (Ecclesiastes is bang on half way through the bible if you open it in the middle - it will be somewhere near there!) Ecclesiastes addresses the subject of time, and what God’s time might look like In Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes the writer speaks about time. That there is a time for everything. A time for different seasons. A time for different actions. A time for different emotions. It speaks of a time of mourning and a time of 4
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