Shabbat shalom to all my friends in Yeshua around the world!

May Yeshua the Messiah bless you all as you seek to serve, love and abide in him every day more and more. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. —Natan

Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, There is a season.   

There is a time and season for everything. That sounds like an innocuously bland and self-evident statement, but not really.

There is a time to do things, as the wise preacher informs us in his famous Ecclesiastes three passage, which begins with the famous words, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a  time to die…” and so on.

But the more the years and decades slide past me and as I reach the grandparenting season of my life, the more I realize that there is, perhaps, more importantly, a time not to do a lot of things that I might have done at an earlier time in my life. There are battles not to fight, words not speak, things not to do. There are several reasons that immediately come to mind for this.

First, and, perhaps, most importantly, it’s about priorities. As one reaches the top of the hill of one’s life and begins the descent on the other side toward death, one can see more circumspectly one’s past life as well as that which remains whether it be a long or a short Continue reading →