A Time for Everything

Note from the composer

A song I wrote for my Composition Graduation concert. I found the text inspiring because it reminds us that life has its ups and downs, but in the end, everything happens for our own good in God’s scheme of things.

Thank you to the Anglican Music Institute for their performance of this song in 2015.

Text

For everything there is a season, a time for everything under heaven:
There is a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to harvest;
a time to cry, and a time to laugh.
Yet God has made everything beautiful on its own time.

For everything there is a season, a time for everything under heaven:
There is a time to embrace, and a time to turn away;
a time to search, and a time to quit searching;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away.
Yet God has made everything beautiful on its own time.

For everything there is a season, a time for everything under heaven:
There is a time to be quiet, and a time to speak;
a time to grieve, and a time to dance;
a time to build, and a time to destroy;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
There is a time for everything.

based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-11