Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 408 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

A Time for Everything

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy podcast. This is Day 408 of our trek, and today is Philosophy Friday. Every Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. Today we will review the concept of the cycles and seasons of life as we look at the concept of A Time for Everything.

We are broadcasting from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. When this trek originally airs, we will be in Scottsdale and Mesa, Arizona working with our partners Charles and Alison Mecom and Tim Guernsey. The five of us are members of Arizona Development Company, and we are the General Contractor for a funding group that is building a combination of townhomes and retail space in Mesa, Arizona. We also provide repairs, remodeling, and maintenance for this same funding group who manages several multi-family housing units in the Phoenix area.

Our focus this trip will be to streamline some of the accounting processes and review the progress being made on our current major project. As we progress through the phases of the project, it is similar to life. There is a time for everything that goes into a construction project, and a time for everything that happens in our lives. Rarely does a construction project or our lives run as smoothly as planned or hoped for. With both, we need to make adjustments and changes for the various cycles and seasons. Sometimes events and situations happen that we did not anticipate, and we have to adapt. Sometimes we make mistakes and fail in some manner, and we have to learn the lessons and continue on. So on our trek for today, we will hike the trail called…

A Time For Everything

When you consider the entirety of life, we all pass through the four seasons, which most of us understand. What you may not grasp though is that you are constantly going through the cycles and seasons of life on a continual basis and in different areas of your life. The principles of planting and harvesting apply to everything that you do so that you have to be continually ready for each of the seasons. If you are prepared for the current season, you will come to understand that each season of life will have its joys and sorrows. The magnitude or intensity of those joys and sorrows will be based on how well you managed and took advantage of the opportunities of the previous season.

You cannot expect a time of harvesting in the spring or a time of planting in the fall. There is a proper time for everything, and if you are wise, you will understand that timing. The core focus on today’s trek is based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. This passage was also the basis for a popular song written by Peter Seeger in the late 1950s and then popularized by the Byrds in the mid-60s under the title Turn, Turn, Turn. The original motivation of the song was a plea for peace in the world during a very tumultuous time.

If you desire to gain wisdom and become wise, then you will come to realize that there is a time and season for everything that happens in your life. How joyful or sorrowful you are during each of those seasons will largely depend on your actions and attitudes of the previous season. It is not the season of life that you are in that matters but how prepared you are for that season that makes all the difference. Let us read through the first 8 verses of Ecclesiastes to learn the wisdom of King Solomon who penned this book.

1 For everything there is a season,

a time for every activity under heaven.

2 A time to be born and a time to die.

A time to plant and a time to harvest.