To Everything a Season
(From “Of Time and Passing”)
Daniel Knaggs (b. 1983)
To everything there is a season
A time for every purpose under heaven:
Time to be born,
a time to die;
A time to plant,
a time to pluck up;
A time to kill,
a time to heal;
Time to break down,
a time to build;
A time to weep,
a time to laugh;
A time to mourn,
a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones,
a time to gather stones;
Time to embrace,
time to refrain;
A time to seek,
a time to lose;
A time to keep,
a time to cast away; A time to rend,
a time to sew;
A time for silence,
a time to speak;
A time to love,
a time to hate;
A time for war,
a time for peace
— Ecclesiastes 3
“To Everything A Season” was performed by the Houston Chamber Choir at their 2019-2020 season’s “By Local.”
