Round and round and round not necessarily a bad thing - Ringwood #Unitarians gathering for reverence October 2018

At our gathering for reverence today, we had readings Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 1-8, and chapter 1 verse 9, followed by two extracts from A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.  We explored change in how we often return again and again to the same things; but we come back to them different in ourselves from how we left them.

We looked at how this is true in our spiritual and moral life for everyone no matter how good or bad.  And the take home thought offered was this: going back isn’t to be worried about, so long as we never give up on going forward.  Change is not in vain no matter how often things come full circle.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done;
    there is nothing new under the sun.